Martha Norkunas. tombs and Memory: ...

Martha Norkunas. tombs and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Pres 2002 258 pp ISBN 1-58834-085-6 $3995 cloth; ISBN 1-58834-030-9 $1795 paper.

In gravestones and Memory, Martha Norkunas traces the intersections of personal and public history, space, and memory. Drawing on her family's roots in Lowell, Massachusetts, Norkunas explores her acknowledge connections to a city that has used public history and space as vehicles of its reincarnation in post-industrial America. As she examines the ways in which