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1) The monument

Author

Paulsen, Gary

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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3

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Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.

2) Mission accomplished : building Colorado veterans monument

Pub. Date

2003

3) Controversial monuments: the fight over statues and symbols

Author

Green, Amanda Jackson

Series

Fight for Black Rights

Pub. Date

[2021]

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"As communities wrestle with the history of racism, the display of symbols such as Confederate statues and the flag itself is hotly debated across the country. Explore why many believe such symbols should be left in the past"--

4) The mighty fallen: our nation's greatest war memorials

Author

Bond, Larry

Pub. Date

[2007]

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A photographic tribute to America's veterans and fallen soldiers features more than one hundred previously unpublished photographs of war memorials from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam.

5) The Stone Carvers

Author

Urquhart, Jane

Pub. Date

2002

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Chronicles the involvement of a stonecarver from Canada named Klara Becker as she participates in creating a monument in Paris to eleven thousand Canadians that died in World War I.

6) Memorializing Pearl Harbor: unfinished histories and the work of remembrance

Author

White, Geoffrey M

Pub. Date

[2016]

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Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented--in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming.--Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed,...