Prague: panoramas of history -- Preserving the national past for the future -- Art meets politics -- Generational approaches to national monuments -- World War I and the Jan Hus Jubilee -- Toppling columns, building a capital -- Catholic Czech nationalism in the early 1920s -- Religious heroes for a secular state -- Modern churches, living cathedrals -- National heroes and Nazi rule -- God's warriors on Vítkov Hill -- Rebuilding Bethlehem Chapel -- Old symbols to oppose the new regime -- Religious and national symbols in post-Communist Prague -- Epilogue: new times, new monuments