Thesis supervisor: Barbara A. Biesecker. Includes bibliographic references (p. 198-204).

How did the Daughters of the Republic of Texas use historic preservation to help create and perpetuate Texas nationalism? Historic sites are an important part of creating and maintaining a nation-state’s national identity, but even more so when the nation no longer exists. The DRT preserved and created a common Texas national history with the preservation and interpretation of the Alamo and the French Legation Museum. The Alamo is the principal symbol of the Texas identity. Before the Alamo was a place of state and national reverence, before it was a battle site, before it was the Alamo, it was a Spanish mission, San Antonio de Valero. Yet, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas reconstructed the history of the mission so as to include only the thirteen days (February 23- March 6, 1836) when it was the site of one of the most important and well-known battles in the War for Texas Independence. This interpretation decision has shaped the way the Alamo is viewed through our collective memory. The French Legation Museum in Austin is important to the story of nationalism in Texas. Although it is not as recognized as the Alamo, the French Legation Museum is a crucial component in the story of Texas as an independent republic. The French Legation gives Texans a physical history of the Republic of Texas, thus strengthening and perpetuating the Texas national identity. The DRT’s preservation decisions at Alamo and the French Legation perpetuate the memory of Texas as an independent republic, and thus preserve the Texas national identity. / text

The 'never again' slogan to genocide, expressed by the United Nations Organization in 1948, after the Armenian and Jewish genocides has not been a barrier to other genocides whose Holocausts are a product. In 1994 in Rwanda, genocide occurred and the Kigali Memorial Center of Genocide is one of the Memorials (Holocaust) which stands as a reminder of the horror, in order to inform the community to keep watching. This raised the curiosity of the researcher, to analyze how these new symbols can contribute to restore and revitalize social and cultural values in the context of Rwanda. The inside of the house offers on opportunity to visit the displayed history in which the genocide is rooted, including the period of genocide through survivors' experiences represented in short movies and by the material used in the killings. There is a room reserved for displays of the others' genocides in the world. Outside the house, mass graves surrounded by a garden, announce the burial place and a documentary place. The first chapter is the general introduction of the study and outlines the framework of the study. The second chapter offers the syntheses of the literature review that it presents the social and political context in which the genocide took root. The third chapter offers the theoretical framework which deals with the nature of culture and its influence in the understanding of the Kigali Memorial Center of Genocide. The fourth chapter focuses on the fieldwork methodology. This study makes use of the qualitative approach. The primary data was collected through in-depth interviews of twenty one individuals and discussions with four focus groups with ten respondents in each group. Respondents were randomly chosen. The secondary data was used to complete the primary data. The fifth chapter is the presentation of the research findings. The findings reveal that after completing the construction of the Kigali Memorial Center of Genocide in 2004, spontaneous and organized visits to the Kigali Memorial Center of Genocide have taken place. This 'window' of what happened, inspires visitors and communities that there is a need to understand the past which can help in building a hopeful future together, for sustainable peace. The sixth chapter is the conclusion of the study which makes with recommendations and suggests further research. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

The subject of this thesis is the development of Holocaust commemoration in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia in the period between 1943-1975. In much of the current literature, the two decades following the Second World War are considered to have been a time when the Holocaust was virtually absent from the public discourse of North American Jewry. Commemoration, according to this view, is said to have been a private affair limited to survivors, a situation which changed only after the appearance of neo-Nazism in the early 1960s, the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, and particularly in the wake of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973. Based on my own study of the oral and documentary materials pertaining to Warsaw Ghetto memorials in Vancouver, I argue that these assessments, which are largely based on the official announcements and priorities of the national Jewish leadership, are of limited value in a community context, where there is evidence of a considerable variety of responses to the murder of European Jewry long before the awareness-raising events said to have initiated "Holocaust consciousness".

Although the GRC National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966, its development as an Historic Designed Landscape had never been thoroughly researched. Archival research and a field survey of the site evaluated the existing conditions of the grounds and structures to determine their historical significance, integrity and physical condition.The George Rogers Clark Memorial, the park grounds, and other structures and features in and near the park setting were determined to be a historic designed landscape that used formal, classical design principles in a response to the City Beautiful Movement, popular at the beginning of this century, to memorialize the achievements of a man and people significant to our national history.An analysis comparing the historic plans and designers' intent for the park to the existing conditions has resulted in a rehabilitation recommendation for the park that includes the process for returning the park to its original design and an advocation for the development of the historic park setting. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Zugl.: Darmstadt, Techn. Univ., Diss.

Este estudo tem como objetivo geral compreender como os memoriais da Praça da Matriz constroem sua importância institucional para o Estado por meio de seus heróis organizacionais. Como objetivos específicos buscaram-se evidenciar as diferenças teóricas entre memória e história e seu uso na comunicação organizacional; verificar a influência do Positivismo no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul e as implicações em organizações na Praça da Matriz de Porto Alegre; analisar exposições de memoriais de organizações públicas localizados ao redor da Praça da Matriz de Porto Alegre. Para tanto, adotou-se como apoio teórico a literatura de várias áreas do conhecimento - como Sociologia, História, Ciências da Informação e Comunicação -, estabelecendo uma colagem de ideias e conceitos extraídos de seus contextos originais, como uma espécie de reconstrução do pensamento Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados para o desenvolvimento da análise foram a visita e descrição dos memoriais e análise documental referente aos objetos expostos sobre os heróis organizacionais, preenchendo o quadro da Jornada do Herói, com as respectivas etapas e reflexão sobre suas criações no ambiente organizacional e na comparação entre eles. O estudo destaca a importância dos profissionais de comunicação pensarem mais sobre a construção dos mitos nos discursos da história institucional, refletindo desde sua escolha pelos historiadores até sua influência social e cultural para a organização. / This study has as a main objective to understand how the memorials of Matriz Square, in Porto Alegre, build their institutional relevance for the State by means of their organizational heroes. As per a specific objective, the intention was to highlight the theoretical diferences between memory and history and their use in organizational communication; to verify the influence of Positivism in Rio Grande do Sul State and the implications in organizations at Matriz Square; to analyze exhibitions of memorials of public organizations located in the surroundings of Matriz Square. In order to do so, the theoretical support that was needed was the literature of various fields on the knowledge, such as Sociology, History, Information Science and Communication, establishing a collage of ideas and concepts taken from their original contexts, as a kind of a thought reconstruction. The methodological procedures that were used for the development of the analysis were the visitation and description of the memorials and documental analysis regarding the exhibited objects about the organizational heroes, filling out the chart of the Hero Journey, with their respective stages and reflections on their creations in the organizational environment and comparisons between them. This study highlights the relevance of professionals of communication to think more about the construction of the myths in the speeches of institutional history, reflecting from the choosing of their historians up to their cultural and social influence on the organization.

Este estudo tem como objetivo geral compreender como os memoriais da Praça da Matriz constroem sua importância institucional para o Estado por meio de seus heróis organizacionais. Como objetivos específicos buscaram-se evidenciar as diferenças teóricas entre memória e história e seu uso na comunicação organizacional; verificar a influência do Positivismo no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul e as implicações em organizações na Praça da Matriz de Porto Alegre; analisar exposições de memoriais de organizações públicas localizados ao redor da Praça da Matriz de Porto Alegre. Para tanto, adotou-se como apoio teórico a literatura de várias áreas do conhecimento - como Sociologia, História, Ciências da Informação e Comunicação -, estabelecendo uma colagem de ideias e conceitos extraídos de seus contextos originais, como uma espécie de reconstrução do pensamento Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados para o desenvolvimento da análise foram a visita e descrição dos memoriais e análise documental referente aos objetos expostos sobre os heróis organizacionais, preenchendo o quadro da Jornada do Herói, com as respectivas etapas e reflexão sobre suas criações no ambiente organizacional e na comparação entre eles. O estudo destaca a importância dos profissionais de comunicação pensarem mais sobre a construção dos mitos nos discursos da história institucional, refletindo desde sua escolha pelos historiadores até sua influência social e cultural para a organização. / This study has as a main objective to understand how the memorials of Matriz Square, in Porto Alegre, build their institutional relevance for the State by means of their organizational heroes. As per a specific objective, the intention was to highlight the theoretical diferences between memory and history and their use in organizational communication; to verify the influence of Positivism in Rio Grande do Sul State and the implications in organizations at Matriz Square; to analyze exhibitions of memorials of public organizations located in the surroundings of Matriz Square. In order to do so, the theoretical support that was needed was the literature of various fields on the knowledge, such as Sociology, History, Information Science and Communication, establishing a collage of ideas and concepts taken from their original contexts, as a kind of a thought reconstruction. The methodological procedures that were used for the development of the analysis were the visitation and description of the memorials and documental analysis regarding the exhibited objects about the organizational heroes, filling out the chart of the Hero Journey, with their respective stages and reflections on their creations in the organizational environment and comparisons between them. This study highlights the relevance of professionals of communication to think more about the construction of the myths in the speeches of institutional history, reflecting from the choosing of their historians up to their cultural and social influence on the organization.

O presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo o patrimônio intangível ou imaterial e suas formas de musealização. Sendo os museus lugares máximos de presença do patrimônio, visa-se descobrir, identificar e metrisar as relações construídas entre os bens imateriais ou intangíveis e esses espaços. Para tanto a investigação parte da historicidade da definição de patrimônio, e em como se vinculam patrimônio material e imaterial. Em um segundo momento, o objeto de estudo é analisado in locu, no Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo, onde se aplica a parte experimental da pesquisa, e que correspondente ao seu terceiro momento, com o intuito de identificar como o imaterial é musealizado e como ele é percebido por seus públicos. Para tanto o foco da análise recai sobre o Programa Coleta Regular de Testemunhos, pois por meio dele o museu coleta a referência patrimonial a qual se dedica e constrói os processos museológicos do Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo. Deste modo, é empreendida uma análise das intenções do programa, sua relação com as demais linhas programáticas, e seus resultados verificados na exposição, por meio de fontes institucionais e avaliações de público. Por fim, uma análise mais geral busca localizar a participação dos atores sociais e agentes da memória nos processos de preservação. / The present work has as its studied objetc the imaterial or intagible heritage and their ways of musealization. Being the museums the maximum places of heritage presence, we aim to discover, identify and measure the built relationships between the immaterial or intangible assets and those spaces. To attend this purpose the research begins from the historicity of the definition of heritage, and how is the binding between tangible and intangible heritage. In a second step, the object of study is analyzed in locus in the Memorial of Resistance of São Paulo, where it is applied the experimental part of the research, and that corresponds to the third point of this research, in order to identify how the intangible is musealized and how it is perceived by its stakeholders. To do this the focus of analysis is on the Program of Regular Collection of Testimonies, because through it the museum collects the heritage reference in which works and builds the Memorial of Resistance of São Paulo\'s museological processes. Thus, an analysis is undertaken of the intentions of the program, its relationship with other programmatic lines, and their verified results on exhibition through institutional sources and reviews of public. Finally, a more general analysis seeks to locate the participation of social actors and memory agents on preservation processes.

The subject of this thesis is the development of Holocaust commemoration in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia in the period between 1943-1975. In much of the current literature, the two decades following the Second World War are considered to have been a time when the Holocaust was virtually absent from the public discourse of North American Jewry. Commemoration, according to this view, is said to have been a private affair limited to survivors, a situation which changed only after the appearance of neo-Nazism in the early 1960s, the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, and particularly in the wake of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973. Based on my own study of the oral and documentary materials pertaining to Warsaw Ghetto memorials in Vancouver, I argue that these assessments, which are largely based on the official announcements and priorities of the national Jewish leadership, are of limited value in a community context, where there is evidence of a considerable variety of responses to the murder of European Jewry long before the awareness-raising events said to have initiated "Holocaust consciousness". / Arts, Faculty of / Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Department of / Graduate