Institutions of Public Memory The Legacies of German and American Politicians

ed. by Astrid M. Eckert

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors

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Introduction: The 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

The 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

The 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

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