This book rhetorically and historically examines the contextual and experiential dimensions of a wide range of public places that are the products and allocators of political power.

By Carl T. Hyden and Theodore F. Sheckels

Chapter 1. The National 9/11 Memorials: Whom Do We Remember and How Do We Remember Them?
Chapter 2. Local 9/11 Memorials: Remembering the Events of 9/11 Away from Ground Zero
Chapter 3. Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Remembering Slowly and Differently
Chapter 4. Point Lookout, Maryland: Remembering the Fort Lincoln Dead, Eventually and Variously
Chapter 5. Lincoln and Son Come to Richmond: Remembering the 16th President in the Heart of the Confederacy
Chapter 6. Slavery, Thurgood Marshall, Roger B. Taney: Maryland's Conflicted Relationships
Chapter 7. Cambridge, Maryland: Redoing the City's History
Chapter 8. American Cities: Trying to Forget
Chapter 9. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania: Remembering in the Wrong Place
Chapter 10. Chicago's Park System: Make No Little Plans
Chapter 11. The High Line: Creating Networks of Accidental Activists, Residents, Philanthropists, Business People and Politicians to Create an Unlikely Urban Park
Chapter 12. U Street NW and H Street NE in Washington, DC: Contested Corridors
Chapter 13. The Westminster Arcade: Politics and Renaissance in Providence
Chapter 14. PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Remembering and Celebrating at the Old Ballgame
Conclusion: Reading Politically