Reviews for Shadowed Ground: America's Landscape of Violence & Tragedy

The average rating for Shadowed Ground: America's Landscape of Violence & Tragedy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-25 00:00:00 Ralph Baker Kenneth E. Foote wrote a book that goes through America's memory lane of violence and tragedy, and how we remember them. Foote visited the places have been both sometimes forgotten and other times memorialized. I felt that the book took the author more time than a duration of a doctoral thesis. I believe that this book was the author's obsession of his tenure. I love this work and I wish to see a follow up by Doctor Foote.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-30 00:00:00 Alexis Cornett The more time I spent with this book, the more valuable I realize that it is. Foote explores the relationship between history and place and looks at why and how certain communities honor (or choose not to mark) specific violent and tragic events that took place there. It all comes down to the crafting of a collective identity in a community and how events that are sometimes shameful or just painful influence that collective memory. I recently taught this book as well; at first I selected it because I knew that I had to as it is basic scholarship on the topic, but found that I referenced it almost every class session throughout the semester and walked away from the course really believing that Foote is the total authority on the subject.