Exhibition Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
Memorialization and Commemoration
Monuments and memorials are public expressions of values. Whether permanent or temporary, these displays tell us what was important to the culture that erected them. Our understanding of these hallowed places, monuments, and symbols continues to evolve. As public historian Edward Linenthal notes, “our choices about who gets remembered, what gets remembered, where acts of remembrance take place, and how we express the significance of remembrance is as much—or more—about the future than the past.”
