A definition of memorials, adapted from James M. Mayo, \u201cWar Memorials as Political Memory,\u201d Geographical Review<\/em> 78, no. 1 (January 1, 1988): 62\u201375:<\/h5>\n

Memorials represent the strengths and weaknesses of wars and the societies that make them.\u00a0 They create conversations around symbolic and socio-political landscapes on both local and global levels.\u00a0 They are the social, physical and\/or digital arrangements of space and artifacts.\u00a0 They impose meaning and order on chaotic experiences of life.<\/p>\n

Some memorials we used to build this definition:<\/h5>\n

Soviet Soldier, Berlin:<\/p>\n

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9\/11 Memorial, Montclair High School<\/p>\n

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9\/11 Memorial, Eagle Rock<\/p>\n

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin<\/p>\n

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Memorial in light, New York City<\/p>\n

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A definition of memorials, adapted from James M. Mayo, \u201cWar Memorials as Political Memory,\u201d Geographical Review 78, no. 1 (January 1, 1988): 62\u201375: Memorials represent the strengths and weaknesses of wars and the societies that make them.\u00a0 They create conversations around symbolic and socio-political landscapes on both local and global levels.\u00a0 They are the social, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}