Curating America's painful past: memory, museums, and the national imagination

Introduction: The national mall and memory of painful past

Framing painful past for the nation : the Smithsonian Museum of American History

American liberation, part I : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

American liberation, part II : the National Museum of African American History And Culture

Remembering and forgetting genocide : the National Museum of The American Indian

Conclusion: Looking back, moving forward.