Placemaking and Memorializing the Past

Here are materials concerned with the interaction between monumental architecture -- structures that memorialize the past -- social interaction and power dynamics.

Image: Mount Rushmore showing the triumphal-style entrance to the controversial monument celebrating four past presidents. The carvings defaced mountain land sacred to several Native American nations and controversy continues over the legality of the means by which the land was acquired by the U.S. government in the 1870s.