PILGRIMS, PLYMOUTH, AND PUBLIC MEMORY: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION MYTHOLOGY
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2021
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What connections exist between the stories a nation tells about its origins and the ways it continues to reproduce itself in the present day? How can we make sense of the vast ways settler colonialism is bound up with contemporary practices of commemoration, public history, and memory work? The following thesis looks at the stories told about the seventeenth century colonization of the land known today as New England. The foundational premise for this investigation is that there exists a generative relationship between the modern-day deployment and circulation of the Mayflower/Plymouth/Pilgrim narrative and the continuance of settler colonial conditions on Turtle Island. Tracking the evolution of the narrative at museums, monuments, historic sites, the Thanksgiving holiday, and settler genealogy groups, the thesis contributes a series of novel case studies and suggests directions for further development in the societal retelling of this history.
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American studies, Museum studies, Collective Memory, Commemoration, Heritage, Narrative, Public History, Settler Colonialism
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141 pages
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