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The shoemaker and the tea party
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Alfred Fabian Young |
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his… |
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History after apartheid
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Annie E. Coombes |
Summary:History after Apartheid explores the dilemmas posed by a wide range of visual and material culture including key South African heritage sites. How prominent should Nelson Mandela and the Afri… |
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The future of nostalgia
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Svetlana Boym |
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?"… |
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The social inheritance of the Holocaust
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Anna Reading |
"This book challenges current thinking on memory and established ideas about how the past, especially atrocity, is handed down. The book addresses how social memories of the Nazi Holocaust are inheri… |
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Critical memory
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Houston A. Baker |
"From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges… |
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Red, white, and blue letter days
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Matthew Dennis |
"The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of Ameri… |
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Making public pasts
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Gordon, Alan |
"Alan Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, a… |
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Sealed with blood
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Sarah J. Purcell |
"Sealed with Blood makes a significant and original contribution to the growing literature on the creation of American nationalism and on the power of historical memory. The understand how military e… |
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