US public memory, rhetoric, and the National Mall

'US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall' examines 'the nation's front yard', understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told.

This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation.

Chapter authors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, as well as some of the early designs not chosen for each.