Exhibiting the war: war museums and memorials
Books for discussion
Catalogues of War Museums
Core Texts
Cornish, Paul, ‘’Sacred Relics’. Objects in the Imperial War Museum 1917-
Sherman, Daniel J., ‘Objects of Memory: History and Narrative in French War Museums’, French Historical Studies 19 (1995), pp. 49-74. JSTOR
Whitmarsh, Andrew, ‘”We will remember them”. Memory and Commemoration in War Museums, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 7 (2001), pp. 1-15. WWW
Further Reading
Kane, Kathryn, Visions of War: Hollywood combat films of World War II (Ann Arbor, 1982).
Mayo, James M., ‘War Memorials as Political Memory’, Geographical Review, 78 (1988), pp. 62-75.
Schleifman, Nurit, ‘Moscow's Victory Park: A Monumental Change’, History and Memory, 13 (2001), pp. 5-34. JSTOR
Young, James E., ‘The Biography of a Memorial Icon: Nathan Rapoport’s Warsaw Ghetto Monument’, Representations, 26 (1989), pp. 69-106. JSTOR