Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance
Geoffrey M. White is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the coeditor of
Making a New Museum
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Published:April 2016
This chapter tells the story of the planning and construction of a new visitor center and museum for the memorial. The opening of a new visitor center complex in 2010 included a new museum that more than doubled exhibit space telling the story of the Pearl Harbor attack. This chapter follows the process of discussion and debate as decisions are made about what would go into the new displays. The moment of creating a new museum complex opened up a conversation about history, memory, and memorialization in which implicit ideas about history itself went on display. The chapter analyzes the...
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