... and “Dixie” every year between 1968 and 1974. 79 There is much more that the history of Mount Vernon’s celebration of Emmett and “Dixie” from the 1930s through the present-day can teach us about commemorative politics, white racial identity, and historical memory, but this article can only offer...

... center, Metini Village, adjacent to Benitz’s ranch. It became an essential sacred site that protected Kashia economic, social, and religious practices in the early years of the U.S. settlement 28 Historical memory Russian and American colonialism Gertrude Atherton Native Sons of the Golden...

... housing, urban renewal, historical memory In 2009 , the City of Seattle announced plans to redevelop Yesler Terrace, a low-income housing facility built in the late 1930s using New Deal funds. With the possible demolition looming, journalists and writers rushed to memorialize Yesler Terrace, which had...

... in transforming idealized images of settler families from objects of purely regional memory into a national American family ideal. © 2016 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2016 Avard Fairbanks pioneer mother public monuments historical memory frontier myth maternalism...

..., but this display of historical memory is anything but straightforward. The event fosters a sense of local community and history, yet it paradoxically also showcases fractious divisions in Hawaiian society. Controversy exists as to which women legitimately can be pa‘u princesses. Although pa‘u riding was originally...