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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American Flag"”.
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Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
… Since its official creation in 1777, the American flag has come to symbolize the Constitution, United States history, and personal political values. In the 1960s and 70s, the government attempted to limit flag display to a patriotic symbolism in response to mass protests over the Vietnam …
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Race follows the American flag: A critique of the United States foreign policy during the Philippine-American War
The intention of Race Follows the American Flag is to examine the political idea of power: the creation of the United States cultural identity and how that cultural identity creates both an imperialist focal point and also a foreign policy based on the racial composition of subjugated and would-be …
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Government hesitancy amidst industry discord: Decline of the United States-flag merchant marine after World War II
The American-flag merchant marine became the world's largest during World War II. U.S.-flag ships carried most of the nation's commerce, and the world looked to America for shipping strength. After the war, the different parties in the maritime industry began to fight for their individual interests …
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"Swear this flag to live, for this flag to die": Flag Imagery in Constructing the Narrative of the Civil War and the Transformation of American Nationalism
The Civil War transformed nationalism in American society and created a notion of national identity closely tied to flag iconography. Flag symbolism developed as the prominent visualization of nationalism in American culture during and after the Civil War. The flags of the Civil War - namely the …
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“No Other Agency”: Public Education (K-12) in Washington State during World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920
… role in the everyday lives of people on the American homefront. Although many helped in the war effort willingly, this wartime drive included both instilling nationalism and loyalty to American political and economic institutions as well as the assimilation of immigrants. While these forces …
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
… silence as a political and aesthetic strategy in American art from 1947 to 2008. It seeks to develop a historical account of three different artists and their investments in silence, with particularized, historically grounded definitions of silence developed in each chapter. It asserts that …
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"An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic
… for all nations as slave trading under the American flag increased exponentially after 1830. This dissertation addresses the many barriers that affected U.S. anti-slave trade policy and examine how the shifting national priorities directly impacted the trajectory of American participation in …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
Although American history has lauded the accomplishments of many great generations, those who experienced World War II are referred to as the greatest generation. Having experienced different aspects of war, loss, hope, and unity, people of that time earned that name through all that they did for …
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Segments
… for the same reason I think the German and South American originators chose it -because some things, like war, are too painful to look at straight on. The death of Sarah’s innocence is a result of an unjust war between father and daughter.</p> <p>''New Kid," set in San Francisco in 1957, shows the …
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The Woman's Relief Corps: "Missionaries of the Flag," 1893-1918
… WRC would step back into a supportive role of American military and then immediately after a war would take advantage of the patriotic fervor to further expand patriotic education.