1. This particular definition, a typical example, is from John Bodnar's, “Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland,” in John R. Gillis, ed.Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 76.
2. Barry Schwartz,Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 18. The italics were in the original quotation.
3. Michael Schudson,The Power of News(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 37.