We Are What We Remember ─ The American Past Through Commemoration

Jeffrey Lee Meriwether is Associate Professor of History and Chair of History and American Studies at Roger Williams University. He has published in the Military History Journal, Archives, and the New England Journal of History, as well as Stephen Miller's Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918 (Brill, 2009). He works in the areas of British military history, the Spanish-American War, and reenactment studies. He is an historical reenactor of the British army. Laura Mattoon D'Amore is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Roger Williams University. She is editor of Bound by Love: Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). Her research interests lay in the intersectionality of feminism, gender representation, history, and popular culture. She maintains a blog at www.americansupermom.com.