TY - BOOK AU - Tomasz Basiuk AU - Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska AU - Krystyna Mazur PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2191-2254 TI - The American Uses of History T2 - Essays on Public Memory UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107979 N2 - This collection of essays in American Studies investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. The contributions present the results of diverse fields of research. While most are literary analyses, others focus on film, art works, monuments, and other means by which public memory is shaped. The essays in this collection also analyze travel writings, records of political history, and the ways American agricultural landscape preserves traces of the country’s past. KW - monuments, film, art, Literature LA - English ER -