Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country.
For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound
at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Prof. Foote has served as Vice President and then President of the Association of American Geographers and as resident of the National Council of Geographic Education. While he researches a broad range of issues,
he is most well-known for his book "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy," studying the memorialization of space and the deep personal connections that people have to sites of tragedy. Ken has also written several books on mentoring
and other facets of early career faculty development, including "Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education" and "Re-reading Cultural Geography."
