Readings for the Institute
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Excursion Ideas from Boulder City
- Recommendations from past participants (.pdf)
Research Archives While in Nevada
- Nevada State Museum
- Boulder City Hoover Dam Museum and Archives
- UNLV Library
- UNLV Special Collections
General Resources for Hoover Dam
- US Bureau of Reclamation: Hoover Dam learning packet (.pdf)
- National Park Service: Hoover Dam links
- History.com: Hoover Dam Videos
- American Experience: Hoover Dam
- PBS: Building Big Dams
- Primary Documents: Bolder Canyon Project Act
Web Links for Hoover Dam Images
- Photogrammar: Yale University’s digitized images from the FSA
- Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Landscape
- UNLV Digital Collections
- UNLV Libraries Digital Photographic Collections
- UNLV Historic Landscapes of Nevada
- UNLV Southern Nevada and Las Vegas Maps
- Jamey Stillings Photo Collections
- Documenting the African American Experience in Las Vegas
University of Nevada Reno Oral History Archives
- Hoover Dam and Boulder City, 1931-1936: A Discussion Among Some Who Were There
- Memories of Boulder City, 1932-1936: An Oral History Interview of Mary Ann Merrill
- Elbert B. Edwards: Memoirs of a Southern Nevada Educator, Scion of an Early Mormon Pioneer Family
- Clarence Ray: Black Politics and Gaming in Las Vegas, 1920s-1980s
- Leon H. Rockwell: Recollections of Life in Las Vegas, Nevada 1906 – 1968
Full Text Primary Documents from Hathi Trust
- Digital Public Library of America: The Hoover Dam Documents
- US Department of the Interior: The Story of Hoover Dam (1961)
- The Hoover dam power and water contracts and related data with introductory notes (1933)
- “So Boulder Dam Was Built,” by George A. Pettitt (1935)
- The Boulder Dam, All-American Canal Project (1924)
- Colorado River question : shall natural resources create local or enlarge distant development? (1928)
- How Boulder Dam power will refinance Colorado River Project (1928)
- The Boulder Canyon Project (1935)
Selected Bibliography
Architecture and Design
- Bayer, Patricia. Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties. New, Thames & Hudson, 1999.
- Breeze, Carla. American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
- Chase, John. “The Role of Consumerism in American Architecture.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), vol. 44, 1991, pp. 211–24.
- Coffman, Elizabeth. “Women in Motion: Loie Fuller and the ‘Interpenetration’ of Art and Science.” Camera Obscura, vol. 17, 2002, pp. 72–105.
- Corbusier, Le. The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning. Dover Publications, 1987.
- Curtis, William. Modern Architecture Since 1900. 3rd ed., Paidon Press, 1996.
- Duncan, Alastair. “Art Deco Lighting.” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, vol. 1, 1986, pp. 20–31.
- Fazio, Michael, et al. A World History of Architecture. 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008.
- Foucault, Michel. “Panopticism.” Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, edited by Neil Leach, Routledge, 1997, pp. 356–67.
- —. “Space, Knowledge, and Power.” The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rainbow, Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 239–56.
- Grady, James. “Nature and the Art Nouveau.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 37, 1955, pp. 187–92.
- Greenhalgh, Paul. “‘A Great Seriousness’: Art Nouveau and the Status of Style.” Apollo, vol. 76, 1962.
- Hartooian, Gevork. “Poetics of Technology and the New Objectivity.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), vol. 40, 1986, pp. 14–19.
- Hattenhauer, Darryl. “The Rhetoric of Architecture: A Semiotic Approach.” Communication Quarterly, vol. 31, 1984, pp. 71–77.
- Hewitt, Andrew. Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant Garde. Stanford University Press, 1993.
- Hunter, Penelope. “Art Deco: The Last Hurrah.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 30, 1972, pp. 257–67.
- Jackson, Nancy. “The Architectural View: Perspective on Communication.” Visual Communication Quarterly, vol. 13, 2006, pp. 32–45.
- Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: Reader in Cultural Theory. Routledge, 1997.
- Morris, Ellen K. “Symbols of Empire: Architectural Style and the Government Offices Competition.” JAE, vol. 32, 1978, pp. 8–13.
- Powers, Alan. “Art Deco: An Image Problem?” Apollo, vol. 142, 1995, pp. 3–6.
- Schleier, Merrill. “Ayn Rand and King Vidor’s Film ‘The Fountainhead’: Architectural Modernism, the Gendered Body, and Political Ideology.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 61, 2002, pp. 310–31.
- Searing, Helen. “Review: Art Deco, 1910-1939.” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 62, 2003, pp. 514–15.
- Slaton, Amy E. Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Solomonson, Katherine. The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s. University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Stockton, Sharon. “Engineering Power: Hoover, Rand, Pound, and the Heroic Architect.” American Literature, vol. 72, 2000, pp. 813–41.
- Striner, Richard. “Art Deco: Polemics and Synthesis.” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 21–34.
- Wiebenson, John. “Symbol Power.” Describing Places, vol. 29, 1975, pp. 18–21.
- Wilson, Richard Guy. “American Modernism in the West: Hoover Dam.” Images of An American Land: Vernacular Architecture in the Western United States, edited by Thomas Carter, University of New Mexico Press, 1997, pp. 291–319.
- —. “Machine-Age Iconography in the American West: The Design of Hoover Dam.” The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 54, 1985, pp. 463–93.
- —. “Massive Deco Monument.” Architecture, vol. LXXII, Dec. 1983, pp. 45–47.
Environment/Ecocriticism
- Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. Touchstone, 1990.
- —. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
- Allen, Michael. “The ‘New’ Western History Stillborn.” The Historian, vol. 94, 1994, pp. 201–08.
- Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace, editors. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. University of Virginia Press, 2001.
- Berry, Wendell. The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural. North Point Press, 1982.
- —. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. 3rd ed., Sierra Club Books, 2004.
- Bouse, Derek. Wildlife Films. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
- Branch, Michael P., and et al., editors. Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment. University of Idaho Press, 1998.
- Branch, Michael P., and Scott Slovic, editors. The Isle Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003. University of Georgia Press, 2003.
- Brooks, Paul, and Craig Waddell, editors. And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
- Buell, Lawrence. “Letter.” PMLA Forum on Literatures of the Environment, vol. 114, Oct. 1999, pp. 1090–92.
- —. “The Ecocritical Insurgency.” New Literary History, vol. 30, 1999, pp. 699–712.
- —. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Harvard University, 1996.
- —. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
- —. Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond. Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Cantrill, James G., and Christine L. Oravec, editors. The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
- Cohen, Michael P. “Blues in the Green: Ecocriticism Under Critique.” Environmental History, vol. 9, 2004. History Cooperative, http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/9.1/cohen.html.
- Cook, Nancy. “What Is Ecocriticism?” Defining Ecocritical Theory and Practice, Western Literature Association Meeting, 1994.
- Coppola, Nancy W., and Bill Karis, editors. Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Environmental Discourse: Connections and Directions. Ablex Publishing, 2000.
- Corbett, Julia B. Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages. Island Press, 2006.
- Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Revised ed., Hill and Wang, 2003.
- —. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
- —. “Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner.” Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 18, 1987, pp. 157–76.
- —. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics, May 2005, http://www.guernicamag.com/features/41/the_trouble_with_wilderness_or/.
- —, editor. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
- —. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past. New ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.
- Cubitt, Sean. EcoMedia. Rodopi, 2005.
- Delicath, John W., and Kevin Michael Deluca. “Image Events, the Public Sphere, and Argumentative Practice: The Case of Radical Environmental Groups.” Argumentation, vol. 17, 2003, pp. 315–34.
- Deluca, Kevin M., and Anne T. Demo. “Imaging Nature: Watkins, Yosemite, and the Birth of Environmentalism.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 17, 2000, pp. 241–61.
- DeLuca, Kevin Michael. Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.
- Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Estok, Simon C. “A Reportcard on Ecocriticism.” AUMLA: The Jounal of Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, vol. 96, Nov. 2001, pp. 220–38.
- Fradkin, Philip L. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. University of California Press, 1996.
- Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2004.
- Glotfelty, Cheryll. “Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1996, pp. xi–xxxvii.
- Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm, editors. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
- Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. Alfred P. Knopf, 1966.
- Gomides, Camilo. “Putting a New Definition of Ecocriticism to the Test: The Case of The Burning Season, a Film (Mal)Adaptation.” ISLE, vol. 13, 2006, pp. 13–23.
- Haraway, Donna J. “The Persistence of Vision.” The Visual Culture Reader, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, Routledge, 1998, pp. 191–98.
- Herndl, Carl. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric In Contemporary America. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
- Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History. Yale University Press, 2000.
- Hochman, Jhan. Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory. University of Idaho Press, 1998.
- Hughes, Thomas P. Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Hundley, Norris Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History. Revised, University of California Press, 2001.
- Ingram, Annie Merrill, et al., editors. Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory And Practice. University of Georgia Press, 2007.
- Jackson, Donald C., Ed. Dams (Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, V. 4). Ashgate Publishing, 1998.
- Josephson, Paul R. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force and the Transformation of the Natural World. Island Press, 2002.
- Kahrl, William L. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley. University of California Press, 1983.
- Kheel, Marti. Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.
- Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America. Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
- King, Ynestra, and Silliman, editors. Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. South End Press, 1999.
- Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, USA, 1968.
- Leslie, Jacques. Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.
- Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
- —. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. W. W. Norton & Company, 1987.
- Love, Glen A. Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
- —. “Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1996.
- Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. 35th ed., Oxford University Press, 1964.
- McDowell, Michael J. “The Bakhtinaian Road to Ecological Insight.” The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1996, pp. 371–91.
- Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. Routledge, 1996.
- —. Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. Routledge, 2003.
- —. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. Harper & Row, 1980.
- Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva, editors. Ecofeminism. Zed Books, 1993.
- Milner, Clyde A., II, et al., editors. Trails: Toward a New Western History. University Press of Kansas, 1991.
- Mitchell, W. J. T. “Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 26, 2000, pp. 193–223.
- —. Landscape and Power. 2nd ed., University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Murdoch, David H. The American West : The Invention of a Myth. University of Nevada Press, 2001.
- Nash, Gerald D. “Point of View: One Hundred Years of Western History.” Journal of the West, vol. 32, 1993.
- Nash, Roderick Frazier. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed., Yale University Press, 2001.
- Nye, David E. America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. The MIT Press, 2004.
- Phillips, Dana. “Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology.” New Literary History, vol. 30, 1999, pp. 577–602.
- —. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.
- Pisani, Donald J. To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902. University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
- —. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. University of California Press, 2002.
- —. Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. University Press Of Kansas, 1996.
- Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Revised ed, Penguin, 1993.
- Richards, Ruth. “Humanistic IdentityA New Aesthetic for Environmental Awareness: Chaos Theory, the Beauty of Nature, and Our Broader.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vol. 41, 2001, pp. 59–95.
- Robbins, William G. “Laying Siege to Western History: The Emergence of New Paradigms.” Reviews in American History, vol. 19, 1991, pp. 313–31.
- Robinson, Michael C. Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation, 1902-1977. Public Works Historical Society, 1979.
- Ross, Patricia. The Spell Cast By Remains: The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature. Routledge, 2006.
- Scharff, Virginia. “Man and Nature! Sex Secrets of Environmental History.” Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History, edited by John P. Herron and Andrew G. Kirk, University of New Mexico Press, 1999, pp. 31–48.
- Scharff, Virginia J., editor. Seeing Nature Through Gender. University Press of Kansas, 2003.
- Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New ed, Harvard University Press, 1978.
- Soule, Michael E., and Gary Lease, editors. Reinventing Nature?: Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction. Island Press, 1995.
- Steinberg, Theodore. “That World’s Fair Feeling’: Control of Water in Twentieth Century America.” Technology and Culture, vol. 34, 1993, pp. 410–409.
- Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Significance of the Frontier in American History. New ed., Dover Publications, 1996.
- Udall, Stewart L., et al. Beyond the Mythic West. Gibbs Smith, 1990.
- Waddell, Craig, editor. Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment: Volume 12. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.
- Warren, Karen J., editor. Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature. Indiana University Press, 1997.
- Wetering, Sarah Bates Van de, et al. Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy. Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, 1993.
- White, Richard. “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
- —. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, 1996.
- Wilkinson, Charles F. Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. Island Press, 1993.
- Worster, Donald. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- —. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 1979.
- —. “Hoover Dam: A Study in Domination.” Dams: Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, edited by Donald C. Jackson, Ashgate Publishing, 1998.
- —. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- —. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. Oxford University Press, 1985.
- —. “Seeing Beyond Culture.” The Jounal of American History, vol. 76, 1990, pp. 1142–47.
- —. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- —. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. Oxford University Press, USA, 1993.
- —. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Great Depression and the New Deal
- Bellush, Bernard. Franklin D. Roosevelt As Governor of New York. Columbia University Press, 1955.
- Bernstein, Michael A. The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Cannon, Brian Q. “Power Relations: Western Rural Electric Cooperatives and the New Deal.” The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 31, 2000, pp. 133–60.
- Fusfeld, Daniel R. “The Source of New Deal Reformism: A Note.” Ethics, vol. 65, 1955, pp. 218–19.
- Hall, Thomas E., and J. David Ferguson. The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
- Houck, Davis W. Rhetoric As Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression. Texas A&M University Press, 2001.
- Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Kern, Paul J. “Federal Farm Legislation: A Factual Appraisal.” Columbia Law Review, vol. 33, 1933, pp. 984–1012.
- “McGregor Warns of Dangers of Swing-Johnson Bill to Arizona.” Coconino Sun, 27 Oct. 1922.
- Moore, James R. “Sources of New Deal Economic Policy: The International Dimension.” The Jounal of American History, vol. 61, 1974, pp. 728–44.
- Rauchway, Eric. The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Rosen, Eliot A. “Roosevelt and the Brains Trust: An Historiographical Overview.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 87, 1972, pp. 531–57.
- Sears, James M. “Black Americans and the New Deal.” The History Teacher, vol. 10, 1976, pp. 89–105.
- Slichter, Gertrude Almy. “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Farm Problem, 1929-1932.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 43, 1956, pp. 238–58.
Hoover Dam Historic Documents
- Bennitt, R. “Hoover Dam.” The American Mercury, vol. 28, Feb. 1933, p. 243.
- Bird, F. L. “Who Will Benefit From Boulder Dam?” The New Republic, July 1930, pp. 310–13.
- Bliven, Bruce. “The American Dnieperstroy.” The New Republic, vol. 85, Dec. 1935, pp. 125–27.
- Bolder Dam Association. The Federal Government’s Colorado River Project. Boulder Dam Association, 1927.
- Boone, Andrew R. “Exploring America’s Mightiest Dam.” Travel, vol. 63, May 1934, pp. 39–42.
- Boulder Canyon Dam. Boulder Dam Association, 1928.
- Brown, Robert M. “The Utilization of the Colorado River.” Geographical Review, vol. 17, 1927, pp. 453–66.
- Buntin, W. H. View-Book of the Boulder [Hoover] Dam: “Worlds Biggest Job.” Angelus Press, 1935.
- Bureau of Power and Light, Department of Public Service. Boulder Canyon Water & Power Project on the Colorado River: A Priceless Asset of the People of The Great Southwest. Bureau of Power and Light, Department of Public Service, 1928.
- Carmody, D. L. “What the Reclamation Women Do in Las Vegas.” New Reclamation Era, vol. 22, Aug. 1931, pp. 202–03. BCMHA, New Reclamation Era 1930-1937.
- Citizens’ Colorado River Water Committee. Water From the Colorado River. Edited by Don J. Kinsey, 2nd ed., vol. August, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1931.
- Davis, Arthur P. “Problems of the Colorado River, Relative Advantages of the Boulder Site.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 123–26.
- Duffus, Robert L. “The Drama of the Colorado.” The New Republic, Apr. 1925, pp. 147–49.
- “Free Competition in Business?: Not by a Dam Site, Says U.S.” Business Week, May 1931, p. 14.
- Gates, H. Phelps. “Aladdin in the Southwest.” Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 1936, p. 3.
- “Glimpse Into the Future at Boulder Dam.” Popular Mechanics, vol. 55, Mar. 1931, p. 368.
- Griswell, Ralph L. “Problems of the Colorado River, Relative Advantages of the Boulder Site.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 148, 1930, pp. 12–19.
- Hamele, Ottamer. “Federal Water Rights in the Colorado River.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 143–49.
- “Harnessing America’s Wildest River.” Popular Mechanics, vol. 71, Feb. 1939, pp. 200–04.
- Hennessey, Gregg R. “Book Review: Hoover Dam: An American Adventure.” The Journal of San Diego History, vol. 35, 1989.
- Johnson, Hiram W. “The Boulder Canyon Project.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, Great Inland Water–Way Projects in the United States, Feb. 1928, pp. 150–56.
- King, Judson. “Open Shop at Boulder Dam.” The New Republic, vol. 67, June 1931, pp. 147–48.
- Koiner, Wellington C. “The Company Point of View Regarding Boulder Dam.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 141–42.
- Lake, Copeland. “Huge Trailer Hauls Penstock Pipe at Boulder Dam.” The Story of Hoover Dam, Nevada Publications, 1986, pp. 129–30.
- Leatherwood, E. O. “My Objections to the Boulder Dam Project.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 133–40.
- Mead, Elwood. “Construction of Boulder Dam.” Literary Digest, vol. 116, 1933, p. 15.
- “New Rival to the Grand Canyon.” Travel, vol. 69, Aug. 1937, pp. 18–19.
- Olson, Reuel L. “Legal Problems in Colorado River Development.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 108–14.
- Popular Mechanics. Harnessing America’s Wildest River. Vol. 71, Feb. 1939, pp. 200–04.
- —. White Gold! Harnessing a River to Reclaim a Desert. Vol. 57, June 1932, pp. 908–13.
- “Portfolio of Public Works.” Architectural Record, vol. 77, May 1935, pp. 328–57.
- Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. “Reviewed Work(s): Hoover Dam: An American Adventure.” California History, vol. 67, 1988, pp. 284–85.
- Reuss, Martin. “Book Review: Hoover Dam: An American Adventure.” Journal of American History, vol. 76, 1989, pp. 295–96.
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “Speech at Boulder Dam, September 30, 1935.” Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 2, Oct. 1935, pp. 25–27.
- Scattergood, E. F. “Engineering and Economic Features of the Boulder Dam.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 115–22.
- Seavey, Clyde L. “What the Boulder Dam Project Means to California and to the Nation.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 135, 1928, pp. 127–32.
- Sherinyan, William K. “Model of the Boulder Dam.” Industrial Education Magazine, vol. 37, 1935, p. 105.
- Skerrett, R. G. “America’s Wonder River – The Colorado.” The Story of Hoover Dam, Nevada Publications, 1986, pp. 5–10.
- Snyder, Lois A. “Watching Boulder Dam at Work.” Travel, vol. 75, Aug. 1940, pp. 10–13.
- Summers, Hon. John W. “Jack Rabbits and Markets.” Congressional Record, vol. Speech to Sixty-Seventh Congress, no. Second Session, June 1922.
- The American Steel & Wire Company. White Gold: The Story of Hoover Dam. The American Steel & Wire Company, 1931.
- Trelease, Frank J. “Arizona v. California: Allocation of Water Resources to People, States, and Nation.” The Supreme Court Review, 1963, pp. 158–205.
- Weymouth, F. E. “Conservation of the Waters of the Colorado River from the Standpoint of the Reclamation Service.” Science, vol. 56, July 1922, pp. 59–66.
- White, Theophilus Ballou. “Building the Big Dam.” Harper’s, June 1935, pp. 113–21.
- Whynn, W. A. White Man’s Magic. Boulder City Museum and Historical Association. Accessed 10 July 2012.
- Wilson, Edmund. “Hoover Dam.” The New Republic, Sept. 1931, pp. 66–69.
- Wolf, Donald E. Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
- Young, Walker R. “Hoover Dam: Purposes, Plans, and Progress of Construction.” Scientific American, vol. 147, Sept. 1932, pp. 134–38.
Labor
- “Boulder City Museum and Historical Association.” Vintage Photograph Collection – Workers, http://www.bcmha.org/photos/workers.html. Accessed 11 Sept. 2008.
- Carmody, D. L. “A Visit to the Hoover Dam Site.” New Reclamation Era, vol. 22, 1931, pp. 172–74.
- Corwin, Sharon. “Picturing Efficiency: Precisionism, Scientific Management, and the Effacement of Labor.” Representations, vol. 84, 2003, pp. 139–65.
- Doss, Erika. “Looking at Labor: Images of Work in 1930s American Art.” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, vol. 24, 2002, pp. 231–57.
- —. “Toward an Iconography of American Labor: Work, Workers, and the Work Ethic in American Art 1930-1945.” Design Issues, vol. 15, 1997, pp. 53–66.
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, and International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Men at Work. Dover Edition, 1977.
- Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline. Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work. Temple University Press, 1988.
- King, Judson. “Open Shop at Boulder Dam.” The New Republic, vol. 67, June 1931, pp. 147–48.
- Layton, Edwin T. “Technology as Knowledge.” Technology and Culture, vol. 15, 1974, pp. 31–41.
- Rocha, Guy Louis. “The IWW and the Boulder Canyon Project: The Final Death Throes of American Syndicalism.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 21, 1978, pp. 2–24.
- Stovall, Tyler. “National Identity and Shifting Imperial Frontiers: Whiteness and the Exclusion of Colonial Labor after World War I.” Representations, vol. 84, 2003, pp. 52–72.
Technology
- Bijker, Wiebe, et al., editors. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. The MIT Press, 1989.
- Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. A Social History of American Technology. Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Grint, Keith, and Steve Woolgar. “On Some Failures of Nerve in Constructivist and Feminist Analyses of Technology.” Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 286–310.
- Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Kasson, John F. Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900. Hill and Wang, 1976.
- Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. The MIT Press, 2007.
- Smith, Merritt Roe, and Leo Marx, editors. Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. The MIT Press, 1994.
Women and Minorities
- Bird, S. Elizabeth. Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. Westview Press, 1996.
- Bond, J. Max. “The Educational Programs for Negroes in the TVA.” Journal of Negro Education, vol. 6, 1937, pp. 144–51.
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- Campbell, Robert B. “Newlands, Old Lands: Native American Labor, Agrarian Ideology, and the Progressive- Era State in the Making of the Newlands Reclamation Project, 1902 –1926.” Pacific Historical Review, vol. 71, no. 2, 2002, pp. 203–38.
- Carter, Greg L. “Social Demography of the Chinese in Nevada.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 18, 1975, pp. 73–90.
- Cole, Olen. “The Negro in the TVA.” Opportunity, vol. 12, 1934, pp. 111–12.
- Coray, Michael S. “‘Democracy’ on the Frontier: A Case Study of Nevada Editorial Attitudes on the Issue of Nonwhite Equality.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 21, 1978, pp. 189–204.
- Davis, John P. “The Plight of the Negro in the TVA.” Crisis, vol. 42, 1935, pp. 294–95, 314–15.
- Deloria, Philip J. Indians in Unexpected Places. University of Kansas Press, 2006.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. “The Negro in the American Social Order: Where Do We Go from Here?” Journal of Negro Education, vol. 8, 1939, pp. 551–70.
- Fitzgerald, Roosevelt. “Blacks and the Boulder Dam Project.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 24, 1981, pp. 255–61.
- —. “The Evolution of a Black Community in Las Vegas, 1905-1940.” Nevada Public Affairs Review, vol. 2, 1987, pp. 23–28.
- Foner, Philip S. .. Lewis, Ronald L. .. Eds., and Ronald L. Lewis, editors. The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present, Vol. VI – the Era of Post-War Prosperity and the Great Depression, 1920-1936. Temple University Press, 1981.
- Foner, Philip S., and Ronald L. Lewis. Black Worker: The Era of Post-War Prosperity and the Great Depression, 1920-1936. Temple University Press, 1980.
- Grant, Nancy L. TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo. Temple University Press, 1990.
- Hembold, Louis Rita. “Downward Occupational Mobility during the Great Depression: Urban Black and White Working Class Women.” Labor History, vol. 29, 1988, pp. 135–72.
- Huhndorf, Shari M. Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Kirby, John B. Black American Roosevelt Era: Liberalism And Race. University of Tennessee Press, 1982.
- Mihesuah, Devon Abbott. Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians. University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
- Moehring, Eugene P. Resort City in the Sunbelt, Las Vegas, 1930-2000. 2nd ed., University of Nevada Press, 2000.
- Natanson, Nicholas. The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography. University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
- Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1986.
- Rentmeister, Cäcilia. “Berufsverbot Für Die Musen. Warum Sind so Viele Allegorien Weiblich?” Ästhetik Und Kommunikation, vol. 25, 1976, pp. 92–112.
- Rusco, Elmer R. Good Time Coming?: Black Nevadans in the Nineteenth Century. Greenwood Press, 1976.
- Simich, Jerry L., and Thomas C. Wright. The Peoples Of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces. University of Nevada Press, 2005.
- Sundstrom, William. “Down or Out?: Unemployment and Occupational Shifts of Urban Black Men during the Great Depression.” Research in Economic History, vol. 16, 1996, pp. 127–55.
- Valocchi, Steve. “The Racial Basis of Capitalism and the State, and the Impact of the New Deal on African Americans.” Social Problems, vol. 41, 1994, pp. 347–62.
- Weatherall, Ann. Gender, Language and Discourse. Psychology Press, 2002.
- White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
- Zimbalist Rosaldo, Michelle. “Women, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview.” Woman, Culture, and Society, edited by Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, Stanford University Press, 1974.
The Sublime
- Andrews, Malcolm. Landscape and Western Art. Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Arensberg, Mary. “Introduction: The American Sublime.” The American Sublime, edited by Mary Arensberg, SUNY Press, 1986, pp. 1–20.
- Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas, Beacon Press, 1994.
- Beckley, Bill. “Sticky Sublime.” Sticky Sublime, edited by Bill Beckley, Allworth Press, 2001, pp. 2–15.
- Bell, Claudia, and John Lyall. The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and Identity. Praeger Publishers, 2001.
- Bernake, Judith. “Framing the View: Picturesque Landscape in Contemporary Tourism Imagery.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 2004.
- Bloom, Harold. “Emerson and Whitman: The American Sublime.” Sublime, edited by Bill Beckley, Allworth Press, 2001, pp. 16–39.
- Burke, Edmund. “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.” Vol. XXIV, Part 2. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 2001, http://www.bartleby.com/24/2/.
- Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. 2nd ed., University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
- Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Ken Knabb, AK Press, 2005.
- Dumych, Daniel M. Images of America: Niagara Falls. Arcadia Publishing, 1996.
- Fried, Michael. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot. University Of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Green, Nicholas. The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. Manchester University Press, 1993.
- Gunn, Joshua, and David Beard. “On the Apocalyptic Sublime.” Southern Speech Communication Journal, vol. 65, 2000, pp. 269–86.
- Harden-Guest, Anthony. “On the Track of the ‘S’ Word: A Reporter’s Notes.” Sticky Sublime, edited by Bill Beckley, Allworth Press, 2001, pp. 49–56.
- Kant, Immanuel. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Translated by John T. Golthwait, 2nd ed., University of California Press, 2004.
- Koerner, J. L. “Borrowed Sight: The Halted Traveller in Caspar David Friedrich and William Wordsworth.” Word & Image, vol. 1, 1985, pp. 149–63.
- Leech, Peter. “Responses to Mieke Bal’s ‘Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture’ (2003): Visual Culture and the Ideology of the Sublime.” Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 2, 2003, pp. 242–46.
- Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell Publishing, 1991.
- Longinus. On Great Writing (On the Sublime). Translated by G.M.A. Grube, New, Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1991.
- McDaniel, James P. “Fantasm: The Triumph of Form (an Essay on the Democratic Sublime).” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 86, 2000, pp. 48–66.
- McGreevy, Patrick Vincent. Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
- McKinsey, Elizabeth R. Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Miall, David S. “Foregrounding and the Sublime: Shelley in Chamonix.” Language and Literature, vol. 16, 2007, pp. 155–68.
- Miller, Perry. The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Mariner Books, 1970.
- Miller, William A. “Of Optimal Views and Other Anxieties of Attending to the Beautiful and Sublime.” Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 1, 2002, pp. 71–86.
- Mitchell, Timothy. “Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Watzmann: German Romantic Landscape Painting and Historical Geology.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 66, 1984, pp. 452–64.
- Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime. The MIT Press, 1994.
- O’Gorman, Ned. “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 34, 2004, pp. 71–89.
- Richter, Gerhard. “Miniatures: Harun Farocki and the Cinematic Non-Event.” Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 3, 2004, pp. 367–71.
- Russo, Mary. “Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory.” Writing on the Body, edited by Katie Conboy et al., Columbia University Press, 1997.
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- Shaw, Philip. The Sublime. Routledge, 2005.
- Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press, 1993.
- Stormer, Nathan. “Addressing the Sublime: Space, Mass Representation, and the Unpresentable.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 21, 2004, pp. 212–40.
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Unabridged ed., Dover Publications, 1996.
- Taylor, Ken. “Culture or Nature: Dilemmas of Interpretation.” Tourism, Culture & Communication, vol. 2, 1999, pp. 69–84.
- Wilson, Rob. American Sublime: Genealogy of a Poetic Genre. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
- Wilton, Andrew, and Tim Barringer. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880. Princeton University Press, 2003.
Tourism and Travel
- Aron, Cindy S. Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Baudrillard, Jean. America. Translated by Chris Turner, Verso, 1989.
- Bell, Claudia, and John Lyall. The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and Identity. Praeger Publishers, 2001.
- Bliven, Bruce. “The American Dnieperstroy.” The New Republic, vol. 85, Dec. 1935, pp. 125–27.
- Clark, Gregory. Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke. Illustrated ed., University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
- Cohen, Erik. “The Sociology of Tourism: Approaches, Issues, and Findings.” The Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 10, 1984, pp. 373–92.
- —. “The Study of Touristic Images of Native People: Mitigating the Stereotype of a Stereotype.” Tourism Research: Critiques and Challenges, edited by Douglas G. Pearce and Richard Warren Butler, Routledge, 1993, pp. 36–69.
- Cohen-Hattab, Kobi. “Zionism, Tourism, and the Battle for Palestine: Tourism as a Political-Propaganda Tool.” Israel Studies, vol. 9, 2004, pp. 61–85.
- Cox, Thomas R. “Before the Casino: James G. Scrugman, State Parks, and Nevada’s Quest for Tourism.” The Western Historical Review, vol. 24, 1993, pp. 332–50.
- Crouch, David, and Nina Lubbren. Visual Culture and Tourism. English ed., Berg Publishers, 2003.
- Davis, Susan G. “Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California.” The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 68, 1999, pp. 173–91.
- Dawson, Michael. Selling British Columbia: Tourism And Consumer Culture 1890-1970. UBC Press, 2005.
- Frow, John. “Tourism and the Semiotics of Nostalgia.” October, vol. 57, 1991, pp. 123–51.
- Gartner, William C. Touism Development: Principles, Processes, and Policies. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.
- Green, Nancy L. “The Comparative Gaze: Travelers in France before the Era of Mass Tourism.” French Historical Studies, vol. 25, 2002, pp. 423–40.
- Hall, Dennis R., editor. “Niagara Falls.” American Icons [Three Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture, Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 493–500.
- MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. University of California Press, 1999.
- Mooney-Melvin, Patricia. “Harnessing the Romance of the Past: Preservation, Tourism, and History.” The Public Historian, vol. 13, 1991, pp. 35–48.
- Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge, 1992.
- Roberson, Susan L., editor. Defining Travel: Diverse Visions. University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
- Rothman, Hal K. Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. University Press of Kansas, 1998.
- Scranton, Philip, and Janet F. Davidson. The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- Sears, John F. Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century. New, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
- Shaffer, Marguerite S. See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940. Smithsonian, 2001.
- Stafford, Barbara Maria. Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account. The MIT Press, 1984.
- Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. 2nd ed., Sage Publications Ltd, 2002.
- Walton, John K. Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity And Conflict. Multilingual Matters Limited, 2005.
- Wrobel, David M., et al., editors. Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Public Memory and Memorial
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 2nd ed., Verso, 1991.
- Asen, Robert. “Imagining in the Public Sphere.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 35, 2002, pp. 345–67.
- Atkinson, David, and Denis Cosgrove. “Urban Rhetoric and Embodied Identities: City, Nation, and Empire at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome, 1870-1945.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 88, 1998, pp. 28–49.
- Biesecker, Barbara A. “Remembering World War II: The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 88, 2002, pp. 393–409.
- Blair, Carole. “Communication as Collective Memory.” Communication As…: Perspectives on Theory, edited by Greg Shepherd, Jeff St. John, and Ted Stripas, Sage Publications Ltd, 2005, pp. 51–59.
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- Blair, Carole, George Dickinson, et al., editors. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. University Alabama Press, 2010.
- Blair, Carole, Marsha S. Jeppeson, et al. “Public Memorializing in Postmodernity: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Prototype.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 77, 1991, pp. 263–88.
- Blair, Carole, and Neil Michel. “The Rushmore Effect: Ethos and National Collective Identity.” The Ethos of Rhetoric, edited by Michael J. Hyde, University of South Carolina Press, 2004, pp. 156–96.
- Carruthers, Mary. The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Churella, Albert J. “Machine, Monument, and Metropolis: New York’s Pennsylvania Station at the Hagley Museum and Library.” Technology and Culture, vol. 45, 2004.
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- Connerton, Paul. How Societies Remember. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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- Dacres, Patricia. “Monument and Meaning.” Small Axe, vol. 16, 2004, pp. 137–53.
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- Edwards, Janis L., and Carol K. Winkler. “Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Image in Editorial Cartoons.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 83, 1997, pp. 289–310.
- Fenz, Werner, and Maria-Regina Kecht. “The Monument Is Invisible, the Sign Visible.” October, vol. 48, 1989, pp. 75–78.
- Goankar, Dilip. “Toward New Imaginaries: An Introduction.” Public Culture, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 1–19.
- Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Edited by Lewis A. Coser, Translated by Lewis A. Coser, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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- Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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- Purcell, Sarah J. “Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument.” The Public Historian, vol. 25, 2003, pp. 55–71.
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- Shanken, Andrew M. “Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 84, 2002, pp. 130–47.
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- Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern, editors. Landscape, Memory And History: Anthropological Perspectives. Pluto Press, 2003.
- Stovall, Tyler. “National Identity and Shifting Imperial Frontiers: Whiteness and the Exclusion of Colonial Labor after World War I.” Representations, vol. 84, 2003, pp. 52–72.
- Taylor, Charles. “Modern Social Imaginaries.” Public Culture, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 91–124.
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- Tuan, Yi-Fu, and Steven Hoelscher. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
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- von Henneberg, Krystyna. “Monuments, Public Space, and the Memory of Empire in Modern Italy.” History & Memory, vol. 16, 2004, pp. 37–85.
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- Zelizer, Barbie. Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. University Of Chicago Press, 1993.
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