Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell them, what happens when monuments disappear, and how these memorials impact national narratives. From the removal of Confederate statutes in the United States and those of Lenin in Ukraine to the efficacy of national holidays in furthering the causes they claim to celebrate, these essays dissect how the collaborative process of memorialization brings purported intention, private agenda, and final outcome into constant friction with each other. Who Tells Your Story is an accessible and provoking examination on public memory and what forces shape it. Contributors. Zachary Bray, Deborah Gerhardt, Emily Greenfield, Randall Kennedy, Larysa Kulyvas, Sanford Levinson, Kimberly Probolus, Kermit Roosevelt III, Anna Saunders, Richard C. Shragger, Bruce Scates, Agata Tatarenko, Aleksandra Kucynskak-Zonik "At a time when struggles over public memory are so urgent, it is critical to understand how this concept works and has varied across space and time. This volume, which brings together a diverse array of scholars and covers a remarkable amount of ground, shows just how much there still is to learn from how societies have memorialized their pasts." -- Jonathan Gienapp, author of ― Against Constitutional Originalism "Sanford Levinson has assembled a remarkable collection of essays on the problems of public memory and forgetting. From debates over canonical figures like King and Jefferson to controversies over the placement and displacement of monuments, Who Tells Your Story powerfully reminds us that nations are produced and sustained through continuous struggles over the collective memories of their inhabitants." -- Jack M. Balkin, author of ― Memory and Authority “Sanford Levinson has assembled a remarkable collection of essays on the problems of public memory and forgetting. From debates over canonical figures like King and Jefferson to controversies over the placement and displacement of monuments, Who Tells Your Story powerfully reminds us that nations are produced and sustained through continuous struggles over the collective memories of their inhabitants.” -- Jack M. Balkin, author of ― Memory and Authority Sanford Levinson is Professor of Law at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous books, including Constitutional Faith and Interpreting Law and Literature .