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Memorials Matter investigates how sites of memory in the American West influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. The book compares seven diverse National Park Service sites to show how the natural landscapes and built structures combine with written texts at each site to generate emotion in individual tourists and shape our collective memory of traumatic events.

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... I found myself fascinated by the topic...I learned a lot, more than I can possible describe here. --National Parks Traveler Memorials Matter offers a timely and thoughtful examination of the ways in which the built and natural environment shape collective memories and national identity...a book commendably and unabashedly of this time.--Western Historical Quarterly

"Public historians and students of public history, especially those interested in the field's connection to environmental history, will find Ladino's book both familiar and satisfying. It is familiar because her work is grounded in consideration of humans' relationship with both the built and natural environments and satisfying because of the academic heft of affect theory and how it helps us better understand and articulate visitors' and our own experiences with public memorials.-- ""Public Historian"" ""... I found myself fascinated by the topic...I learned a lot, more than I can possible describe here.""-- ""National Parks Traveler"" She is optimistic that the NPS can improve its interpretative work to include the complications of racism and environmental losses in its memorialization while allowing visitors still to feel 'awe and wonder' in these amazing landscapes (243). My fingers are crossed that she is right.-- ""Western American Literature"" Memorials Matter offers a timely and thoughtful examination of the ways in which the built and natural environment shape collective memories and national identity...a book commendably and unabashedly of this time.-- ""Western Historical Quarterly"""

.. . I found myself fascinated by the topic...I learned a lot, more than I can possible describe here. --National Parks Traveler

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Jennifer Ladino is the author and Asoociate Professor of English at the University of Idaho, where she specializes in American literature and the environmental humainties. Her first book was a finalist for the ASLE book award in 2013.

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