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Preface: Confederates on my corner -- Introduction: History, the museum, and Confederate exceptionalism -- "Carry me back to old Virginny" and the (neo-) Confederate jeremiad -- Stonewall Jackson and sacred relics -- Black Confederates : the unsettling performances of living reconciliation -- Cooking Confederate and nostalgic re-enactment -- Historical diorama and protecting the Confederate habitat -- Heroes, villains, and the digital Confederacy -- Conclusion: On the (neo-) Confederate stage.

On April 4, 2015, White North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Officer Michael Slager shot and killed Black motorist Walter Scott. Upon the release of a bystander video of the deadly shooting, Mayor Keith Summey and Police Chief Eddie Driggers denounced Slager's actions and announced his arrest for Scott's death. This article argues that journalists' use and subsequent circulation of White savior mythology to narrativize the work of the two leaders offered a message of hope, progress, and White redemption, anchored in a vision of a "post-racial" United States.

On June 17, 2012, journalists reported the death of Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 beating by several white Los Angeles police officers was captured on video by citizen journalist George Holliday. This essay argues that journalistic mythologizing of Rodney King as a victim of circumstance and journalism as simultaneous hero echoed existing narratives of civil rights history that largely strip black people of agency. In so doing, journalists proffered a larger cultural narrative of racial reconciliation and progress, while recoding King's life in accordance with other pre-existing, racialized scripts.

This chapter considers the definitional and disciplinary politics surrounding the study of memory, exploring the various sites of memory study that have emerged within the field of communication. Specifically, this chapter reviews sites of memory and commemoration, ranging from places such as museums, monuments, and memorials, to textual forms, including journalism and consumer culture. Within each context, this chapter examines the ways in which these sites have interpreted and reinterpreted traumatic pasts bearing great consequence for national identity. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges set forth by new media for scholars engaging in studies of the politics of memory and identifies areas worthy of future research.

Introduction: remembering communication history / Nicole Maurantonio & David W. Park -- Introduction: communicating space & time -- Interscalarity & the memory spectrum / Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering, and Pawas Bisht -- Archiving ISIS : metastasized archives, lieux de futur, and endless war / Piotr Szpunar -- Introduction: narrative -- Remarkable coincidence : a true story of the Liberty Bell's myth / Deborah Lubken -- Mass media as memory agents : a theoretical & empirical contribution to collective memory research / Michael Meyen -- Mnemonic newswork : exploring the role of journalism in the rereading of national pasts / Oren Meyers -- Introduction: embodiment & materiality -- Badna Naaref (we want to know) : the politics of movement and memory in "postwar" Beirut / Erin E. Cory -- "Taking back" a post-conflict city : tourism, anniversary memory, and the new histories of Belfast / Carolyn Kitch -- Presence and absence : the Berlin wall as strategic platform / Samantha Oliver -- Building an archive for future generations : archival digitization at the national library of Israel / Sharon Ringel -- Introduction: audience -- Digital post-scarcity versus default amnesia : Russian political existence and the online resurrection of memories of the dead at the nord-ost theatre siege / Amanda Lagerkvist & Katerina Linden -- Reclaiming identity : gdr lifeworld memories in digital public spheres / Manuel Menke & Ekaterina Kalinina -- Postscript: once a margin, always a margin / Barbie Zelizer