The National Mall: Making Space for the Dream

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Benton-Short
Keyword(s):  
National Mall

Keeping the Vision Alive: The Role of Networks in National Memorial Building A Case Study of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Amy Probsdorfer Kelley ◽  
John C. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Perceived Popularity ◽  
National Mall ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The process to win approval to build a national memorial on the National Mall inWashington, DC is both long and complex. Many memorials are proposed, but few are chosen to inhabit the increasingly scarce space available on the Mall. Through the use of network analysis we compare and contrast two memorial proposals, with an eye toward understanding why one proposal was successful while the other seems to have failed. We conclude that the success of a specific memorial has less to do with the perceived popularity of the person or event to be memorialized, and more to do with how the sponsors use the network of people and resources available to advocate for a given proposal.

scholarly journals Decolonising the museum: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC

Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (304) ◽  
pp. 424-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Smith
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Mall ◽  
New Facility

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution’s new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonised future for Indigenous populations.

Go Away Little Girl: Gender, Race, and Controversy in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 595-617
Author(s):  
Kim S. Theriault
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Obtuse Angle ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
White House ◽  
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ◽  
National Mall ◽  
The Right

It's remarkably simple, really.Constructed in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, generally referred to as the “Wall,” consists of two black granite wings, each almost 250 feet long, which meet at an obtuse angle that is submerged into the landscape of the National Mall, a green space between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials and some distance behind White House, in Washington, D.C. The form of the Wall, designed by Maya Ying Lin, is minimalist in nature, not only because it includes the right angles, hard edges, shiny surface, and repeated increments of Minimalism, but because even though it is a war memorial, unlike most, its only ornament and representation is the seemingly endless list of 58,226 names of American service men and women killed in Vietnam.

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