Reading public memory in Daniel Webster'sPlymouth Rock oration

The Incomplete Subject of Colonial Memory: Puerto Rico and the Post/Colonial Biopolitics of Congressional Recollection

“…Although studies of memory in our field have analyzed such memorial vehicles as monuments, epideictic addresses, museums, settlements, and scrapbooks, legislation and plebiscites as sites of remembrance have not been much studied (Browne, 1993;Katriel & Farrell, 1991;Dionisopoulos & Goldzwig, 1992;Katriel, 1994). As technologies of governance, the Young Act and its proposed referendum, and the Report by the President's Task Force are institutional forms-cultural vehicles that construct and invoke the frames of remembrance through which we view not only Puerto Rico's colonial past, but also its present and future.…”

Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights

“…A variety of memory sites, including commemorative structures (Blair, Jeppeson, and Pucci, 1991;Blair and Michel, 2000;Bodnar, 1992;Ehrenhaus, 1989;Mandzuik, 2003), speeches (Browne 1993(Browne , 1999, museums (Gallagher, 1999), photographs (Zelizer, 1998), and films (Biesecker, 2002;Ehrenhaus, 2001;Hasian 2001;Hasian and Carlson, 2000;Owens, 2003) constitute rhetorical expressions of cultural knowledge and values about past events. Indeed, widely shared depictions of the past may tell us more about contemporary issues than they do about past events.…”

“…Rhetorical scholars frequently refer to memory sites in terms of "public" (Browne, 1993(Browne, , 1995Eberly, 2004;Gallagher, 1999;Mandzuik, 2003) or "collective" memories (Hasian & Carlson, 2000;Hasian, 2001 (Hoerl, 2007).…”

Reies Lopez Tijerina's “the land grant question”: Creating history through metaphors

“…The speech also illustrated Browne's (1993) ideas that speeches are important tools in the creation of a public memory that shapes "our sense of a shared past." According to Browne, rhetoric can involve "a proprietary struggle for control of public memory" (pp.…”