Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
"This innovative interdisciplinary study takes  its place among a growing body of scholarship concerned with memory and  commemoration, representation and authenticity, and heritage and  tourism. Seth C. Bruggeman makes superb use of a kaleidoscopic array of  sources to narrate a story of entanglement and ambivalence at George  Washington's birthplace." —Journal of Southern History"Bruggeman skillfully relates the story of Washington's birthplace to the growing literature on memory, commemoration, and public history.Here, George Washington Was Bornis a very well informed, well researched, and effective case study that also serves as a broader introduction to cultural resource management."—Theodore Karamanski, author ofRally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War