# Monumental Decisions: 2018 National Book Festival

Brent D. Glass presents "50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.," Kristin Ann Hass presents "Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial"and "Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall," James Reston Jr. presents "A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial." and Kirk Savage presents "The Civil War in Art and Memory" and "Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692331/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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