Research Catalog

Title

Institutions of public memory : the legacies of German and American politicians / edited by Astrid M. Eckert.

Publication

Washington, D.C.^^: German Historical Institute, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Eckert, Astrid M.
• German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Description

134 p. : ill.,; 21 cm.

Subject

• Presidential libraries
• Presidents > Museums > United States
• Politicians > Museums > Germany
• Memory > Social aspects > United States
• Memory > Social aspects > Germany
• United States > Foreign relations > Germany
• Germany > Foreign relations > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction, Institutionalization of political legacies in Germany and the United States / Astrid M. Eckert -- With a whiff of royalism : exhibiting biographies in American presidential libraries / Thomas Hertfelder -- Visiting presidential and chancellor museums : an American perspective / John C. Powers -- Quarrel over the Stasi files / Martin Sabrow -- Access to papers of German politicians at the Bundesarchiv / Hartmut Weber -- Constructing memory and restraining power : the case of the White House e-mail / Thomas S. Blanton -- Development of the memorial foundations of German politicians and the American presidential libraries-- a comparative view / Dieter Dowe -- Pride or protest? : community response to presidential libraries / Frank G. Burke -- Presidents' Day : the commemoration of what? / Barry Schwartz -- Nixon in American memory / David Greenberg -- Friedrich Ebert in German political memory / Walter Mühlhausen -- Still a myth? : public remembrance of Otto von Bismarck and the Bismarck Foundation / Andreas von Seggern.

OCLC

• 131193532
• SCSB-12496223

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Harvard Library