Commemoration acts much like museums. They both bring the past into the present in ways that attempt to impact the public in an emotional or educational way. This talk presents a geographic perspective on commemoration and what it holds in common with history, in general, and museums in particular. After introducing the nature of geography as a way of understanding the “landscape” and commemorative spaces, this paper turns its attention to the Border War in Kansas. It investigates three commemorative landscapes in Kansas Lawrence, John Brown, and the Kansas State Marker Program which put into perspective how geographers understand commemorative places and how those places and our understanding of them may change over time.