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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"War memory"”.
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“We deem it entirely fitting": Civil War memory in Oklahoma
Scholars have published few pieces about Civil War memory in Oklahoma, and the existing studies focus primarily on Native Americans living in Indian Territory during Reconstruction. This study expands on the previous scholarship by looking at Civil War memory in Oklahoma from 1907 to 1922 and …
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
… and discuss how personal and collective memory play a role in the construction of the military museum. I also consider how visiting, commemorating, interpreting, and reenacting aspects of military and conflict history in the museum, create narratives inside the museum.</p>
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Victim, Aggressor, and Leader: Hierarchy, War Memory, and Foreign Policy of Postwar Japan
… leaders reconcile tensions between the competing war memories of victimization and aggression with the state's aspirations for international leadership? Analyzing archival documents, history textbooks, and leaders' speeches, I examine the content and contestation of Japan's collective memories of …
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
… of popular culture on the creation of Civil War memory. Penned in the aftermath of Lee's surrender and containing lines like, “I hate the Yankee Nation / And everything they do; / I hate the Declaration / Of Independence, too,” the “Good Old Rebel” typifies a certain brand of white southern …
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Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement.
<p>Memory is constructed to solidify a certain version of the past in the collective identity. History and memory occupy a controversial role in the New South, with battles over the legacy of the Civil War and the reassertion of Confederate symbols in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement's …
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The Spirit of Columbus: Civil War Memory in the Fountain City, 1865-1880
<p>During the Civil War men and women from Columbus supported the Confederate war effort through direct military service and the Ladies Soldier’s Friend Society. After the Civil War, the women of Columbus organized the Ladies Memorial Association to beautify Linwood Cemetery and build a Confederate …
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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
… in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
… during the hundred years between the end of WWI war and the WWI centenary celebrations, following the changes in national memory narratives. The research relies on memorials inaugurated in London, Paris and Budapest since 1914, newspapers published during the recent centenary years, archive …
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The Memory of the First World War at its Centenary in Britain: A Study of War Memory at National, Local and Individual Levels
… examines the commemoration of the First World War Centenary (2014-2018) in Britain and assess the relationship of between centenary events and cultural memory of the war. Since the Armistice in 1918, the memory of the First World War has been reshaped throughout the past century and the pity of …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… the 150 years since the start of the U.S. Civil War, historians and laypeople alike have debated the causes and conduct of the war. Through the acceptance of the Confederate veterans memorial school the Lost Cause that led to reunification in the late nineteenth century, the memory of the Civil …
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Gender, Community and the Memory of the Second World War Occupation of the Channel Islands
… the construction of frames of Second World War memory in the post-occupation Channel Islands, and considers the impact of gender on both this memory-making process and the resulting popular representations of their shared past. It first explores the gendered tensions and fractures of the …
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The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913
… Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913," is a widely-ramifying study of the politics of collective memory in Kansas, where the Civil War can be said to have begun in 1854, where it unfolded in especially bloody and traumatic …
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Branding History: Literature-to-Screen Adaptation and the Cultural Memory of China’s Second World War
… China’s experiences of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) into various media, including films, TV series, video games, and museums. It explores how these different media influence and adapt from each other, shaping China’s cultural memory of the war. Covering screen-based cultural …
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Networked Memorialization: Victims Of Communism Memorials In Germany, Russia, And The U.s.
… U.S. to shed light on the current state of Cold War collective memory. Drawing on literature in communication and memory studies, I articulate a key set of taken for question assumptions about the nature of war memory, and examine how such premises are problematized by an unconventional conflict …
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Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945 - 1962
… investigates the civilian experience of the Cold War between 1945 and1962 through 44 original oral history interviews with 48 individuals. As the first oral history of everyday life in Cold War Britain it examines the generation born before1945 and the experience of growing up in postwar Britain. …
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The Cultural Memory of Britain's Cold War
In recent years the Cold War has increasingly become a popular topic for museums, films, and television series. The sustained popularity of Cold War characters and events continue to bring the Cold War back into the contemporary world and to contemporary audiences. Films, series, and exhibitions …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
… an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the connotation, remembrance, and commemoration of war in American memory has shifted from romanticizing former conflicts to renegotiating their …
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“Where foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin”: Topographies of memory and amnesia in Poland and Spain
… histories under the umbrella of Holocaust and Memory Studies in its examination of selections from each country’s respective canon of film and literature pertaining to the Holocaust and Spanish Civil War. The resistance to literary and visual depictions of wartime memory in Poland and Spain …
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
This thesis analyses parallels between the civil wars of late Republican Rome and episodes about non-Roman historical figures, which were drawn in Latin, and occasionally in Greek, literature composed throughout the Julio-Claudian period. I argue that these parallels provided a key apparatus …
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