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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"american memory"”.
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Civil War prisons in American memory
The memory of Civil War prisons has always been contested. Since 1861, generations of Americans struggled with the questions raised by the deaths of approximately 56,000 prisoners of war, almost one-tenth of all Civil War fatalities. During the war, throughout Reconstruction, and well into the …
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Loyalty on the Line: Civil War Maryland in American Memory
During the American Civil War, Maryland did not join the Confederacy but nonetheless possessed divided loyalties and sentiments. Although Maryland's government remained loyal to the Union during war, many regions and cities in the state harbored strong Confederate sympathies. In particular, …
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Through the Eyes of the Post: American Media Coverage of the Armenian Genocide.
… eliminated while the world watched. Yet today, American memory and conception of the Armenian Genocide is remarkably different from similar historical events such as the Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide and America's reaction to it is a forgotten event in American memory.</p><p> In an attempt to …
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Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
… heritage digital collections: Opening History, American Memory, and The European Library • transaction log analysis of user interactions, with Opening History, and • interview and observation data on academic historians interacting with two aggregations: Opening History and American Memory. It …
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The archive on the hill : the Presidential Library and the architecture of American history
… define publics through the transformation of American history into images and ideas. The presidential library is a uniquely American institution where national history plays out in a mitigated exchange between the representation of memory and the record of political action. On the one hand, …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… the unique story of Henry Smith, an African-American brutally lynched in Paris, Texas during the 1890s. Through an examination of primary documents – newspaper articles, photographs, eyewitness testimonies, etc. – and secondary literature, the author will reconstruct an event in Texas’ …
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Soldiers in the Sideshows: The 409th Infantry Regiment in World War II
… and the Battle of the Bulge are core aspects of American memory. However, the men of the 409<sup>th</sup> Infantry Regiment of the 103<sup>rd</sup> Infantry Division do not fall into this image. This unit fought as part of the U.S. Seventh Army across eastern France through the Vosges Mountains, …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
… theater has historically been a venue for Americans to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and 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, …
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Reel wars: Cold War, civil rights and Hollywood's changing interpretation of the American Civil War 1945-75
… through Hollywood's representation of the American Civil War - a powerful event in American memory which still resonates today. Civil War films have been the subject of study by film studies specialists and historians but they have concentrated on the early years highlighting the iconic …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
… the role of museums and the politics of memory as central to the debate about contesting erasure in low-income areas. While Latin American memory studies scholars have analyzed traumatic events such as dictatorships and civil wars in the region and memorialization practices that evolved …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
… from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to understand the …
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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age
… text, I explore the hidden power of images in American visual culture through painting-based installations. I investigate images of the past and present juxtaposed in a surrealist landscape. Through the use of images in the news, entertainment, advertising, and images within the home, I depict …