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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the public opinion of Ulysses Grant has changed from that of a revered President to the twentieth-century view of him as only a mediocre one, describing how the change is paralleled by a reassessment of the Civil War period itself.
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Language
English
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Description
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A leading expert's exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down? Erin L. Thompson, the country's leading...
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A collection of photographs cataloging the contents of Hangar 17 at JFK International Airport, where artifacts from the World Trade Center were stored and preserved after the September 11, 2001, attacks, accompanied by essays reflecting on the events and the items.
Author
Series
Public History - Angewandte Geschichte volume 16
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Schulgeschichtsbücher spiegeln das historische Verständnis einer Gesellschaft zur jeweiligen Zeit wider. Als Konglomerat dessen, was an nachfolgende Generationen weitergegeben werden soll, stellen sie damit einen zentralen und ergiebigen Forschungsgegenstand dar. Anhand der Darstellung des Versailler Vertrags in Schulbüchern aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA vergleicht Lena Mörike die Entwicklung nationaler Erinnerungskulturen...