From Memory to Memorial : : Shanksville, America, and Flight 93 / / J. William Thompson.

On September 11, 2001, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, became a center of national attention when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a former strip mine in sleepy Somerset County, killing all forty passengers and crew aboard. This is the story of the memorialization that followed, from immediate, uno...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Keystone Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 26 illustrations/3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: A Journey in the Name of Memory
  • 1 The Day the Sky Fell Down
  • 2 It Takes a Village
  • 3 This Harvest of Sorrow
  • 4 If Memories Could Heal
  • 5 In Search of the “One Brilliant Idea”
  • 6 The Many Faces of Memory
  • 7 Memorial, Interrupted
  • 8 The Shanksville Redemption
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: The Memorial Design Competition Juries
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index