Review: Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era, by Marita Sturken

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Book Review| May 01 2022 Review: Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era, by Marita Sturken Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era by Marita Sturken. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 321 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $89.00; paperback, $29.00; eBook, $15.66. Edward T. Linenthal Edward T. Linenthal Indiana University-Bloomington, emeritus Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2022) 44 (2): 134–136. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.2.134 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Edward T. Linenthal; Review: Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era, by Marita Sturken. The Public Historian 1 May 2022; 44 (2): 134–136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.2.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Marita Sturken, professor in New York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, has produced a superb trilogy of books engaging the complex processes of recent American memorialization. They are, in chronological order: Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering; Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero; and her new book, the subject of this review. Terrorism in American Memory is, I think, the most ambitious of these books, given the many violent disruptions the nation has suffered in the post–9/11 world, which has increased the variety and intensity of memorial expression, now often an immediate language of engagement rather than a more distant expression of remembrance. Sturken understands very well how memorials are more than ever asked to serve a therapeutic function, for better or worse. She also understands that institutions combining memorial and museum present... You do not currently have access to this content.