Cover
Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?”
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Part I: Foundations
Chapter 1: Making the New Nation Old; or, Founding Objects: Relics and Nationalism
Chapter 2: Making the New Nation Ancient: The Incognitum, American Antiquities, and Indigenous Relics
Chapter 3: Making the New Republic Venerable: Object Lessons from the Relict Colonial Past and Early National Present
Part II: Supremacy
Chapter 4: “O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie” Pioneers, Relics, and the Colonial Landscape of the Dead in Westward Expansion
Chapter 5: The Bloody Shirt: A Short History of a Sanguinary Object and Political Trope
Chapter 6: Atrocious Relics: Trophy-Taking, Lynching, and the Objects of Terror
Part III: Heroes and Victims
Chapter 7: “We Will Never Forget”: The New Political Voices of Relics in Post- Holocaust America
Chapter 8: 9/11: Material Victimology
Epilogue: Future Relics
Notes
Index
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