The lofty, cracked Liberty Bell; the starkly beckoning Vietnam Veterans Memorial; the made-it- personal, traveling AIDS quilt and New York's "Wall of The Missing." For many Americans, these images are a deep part of our shared memory.
But how have they actually influenced the course of history - and our collective view of it looking back? And how has our way of commemorating extraordinary events become more personal, tactile - even community- created over time? Explore those notions in the visual feast that is Judith Depre's book, Monuments.
She writes, "Monuments are our response to ...
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