Constructing Presidential Legacy ― How We Remember the American President

What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to commemorate their legacies?

Few personalities loom larger than the President of the United States. Their accomplishments and failures are forensically documented, and their personal lives are under constant scrutiny from the media. But how does a president's legacy emerge, and how to do we come to commemorate it?

In Constructing Presidential Legacy, world-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are remembered. They look at multiple presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Discover how presidential legacies are constructed during and after their time in the Whitehouse, and how they are portrayed in media such as film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.

Michael Patrick Cullinane is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Roehampton. He is the author of The Open Door Era: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) and Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 1898-1909 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Sylvia Ellis is Professor of American History at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Freedom's Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights (University Press of Florida, 2013), A Historical Dictionary of Anglo-American Relations (Scarecrow Press, 2009) and Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (Praeger, 2004).

Michael and Sylvia are the series editors of New Perspectives on the American Presidency (Edinburgh University Press).