memorials

Explores the ways in which Oklahomans, Americans, and people around the world have attempted to recover from the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, based on interviews with over 150 survivors, family members, rescue workers, and others.

Describes the events surrounding the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the memorial created to honor the victims.

Full-color, illustrated photographs that describe fifty inscribed monuments from across America that pays tribute to events and people throughout the nation's history, including the Lincoln Memorial, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam memorials, the Murrah Federal Building display in Oklahoma City, and September 11 memorials.

Ten years after the events of September 11, 2011, Claire Burwell a member on a jury that gathered to anonymously appoint the architect for a memorial, is confronted with public outrage when the media leaks that the winner is an American Muslim and is forced to face journalists, activists, and politicians while trying to find the best way to remember and understand the national tragedy.

A guide to the monuments and memorials of Washington, D.C., with descriptions of each and more than five hundred photographs.