Institutions of public memory : the legacies of German and American politicians / edited by Astrid M. Eckert.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Institutionalization of political legacies in Germany and the United States / Astrid M. Eckert -- With a whiff of royalism : exhibiting biographies in American presidential libraries / Thomas Hertfelder -- Visiting presidential and chancellor museums : an American perspective / John C. Powers -- Quarrel over the Stasi files / Martin Sabrow -- Access to papers of German politicians at the Bundesarchiv / Hartmut Weber -- Constructing memory and restraining power : the case of the White House e-mail / Thomas S. Blanton -- Development of the memorial foundations of German politicians and the American presidential libraries-- a comparative view / Dieter Dowe -- Pride or protest? : community response to presidential libraries / Frank G. Burke -- Presidents' Day : the commemoration of what? / Barry Schwartz -- Nixon in American memory / David Greenberg -- Friedrich Ebert in German political memory / Walter Mühlhausen -- Still a myth? : public remembrance of Otto von Bismarck and the Bismarck Foundation / Andreas von Seggern.