This volume outlines pedagogical projects to the (re)production of public memory as a way to advance students' writing and rhetorical repertoire.

Jane Greer is Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA. She is the editor of Girls and Literacy in America (2003), and her scholarship has been published in College English, College Composition and Communication, English Journal, Women's Studies Quarterly, and numerous edited collections.

Laurie Grobman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University Berks, USA. She is the 2014 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year. Grobman has published two books, Multicultural Hybridity: Transforming American Literary Scholarship and Pedagogy (2007) and Teaching at the Crossroads: Cultures and Critical Perspectives in Literature by Women of Color (2001), and edited Undergraduate Research in English Studies (2010) and On Location: Theory and Practice in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring (2005).

Introduction: Complicating Conversations: Public Memory Production and Composition & Rhetoric Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman Part 1: Museums 1. Remembering the Children of Lodz: Conducting Public Research with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a First-Year Writing Course Cayo Gamber and Bill Gillis 2. Sitting Still in the Right Places: Remembering and Writing Civil Rights History in Prince Edward County, Virginia Heather Lettner-Rust, Larissa Smith Fergeson, and Michael Mergen 3. "Keepers of Memory": First-Year Writers and the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum Laurie Grobman 4. Learning Out Loud: Freeman Tilden, Interpretation, and Rhetorical Performance at The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures Jane Greer and Laura Taylor Part 2: Archives 5. A Pedagogy for the Ethics of Remembering: Producing Public Memory for the Women's Archive Project Tammie M. Kennedy and Angelika L. Walker 6. Talking Back: Writing Assistants Renegotiate the Public Memory of Writing Centers Patty Wilde, Molly Tetreault, and Sarah B. Franco 7. "Many Happy Returns": Student Archivists as Curators of Public Memory Michael Neal, Katherine Bridgman, and Stephen J. McElroy Part 3: Memorials 8. Writing on the Frontlines of Public Memory: English and History Undergraduates Contributing to the Flight 93 Oral History Project Douglas D. Page and Laura E. Rotunno 9. Teaching and Inventing Public Memorials: Chicago Women Rhetors Julie A. Bokser 10. In Loving Memory: Vernacular Memorials and Engaged Writing Deborah M. Mix 11. Teaching the Repulsive Memorial Barry Jason Mauer, John Venecek, Amy Larner Giroux, Patricia Carlton, Marcy Galbreath, and Valerie Kasper