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1) The deep
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one -- the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying...
2) There there
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Language
English
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to her family. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together and has come to work the powwow in his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself...
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Language
English
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As survivors of many of the twentieth century's most monumental events--the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fields--begin to pass away, Survivor Café addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten? Elizabeth Rosner organizes her book around three trips with her father to Buchenwald concentration camp--in 1983, in 1995, and in 2015--each journey an experience...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Although the log cabin largely disappeared as a living space, it has lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. Alison Hoagland looks at this once-common dwelling as a practical shelter solution--easy to construct, built on the frontier's abundance of trees, and not necessarily meant to be permanent--and its evolving place in the public memory. The romantic view of the past, combined with the log cabin's simplicity, solidity, and compatibility...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once celebrated on par with the Fourth of July, January 8th, the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, is no longer a day of reverence for most Americans. Although the United States' stunning 1815 defeat of the British army south of New Orleans gave rise to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party, and the legend of Jean Laffite, the battle has not been a national holiday since 1861. The author explores how generations of Americans...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called "butcher of Riga," Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of redeeming Cukurs for his past actions. Researching the case, Kinstler discovered that her grandfather, Boris, had served in Cukurs's killing unit and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses how people completely polarized in their views on government all cite the Founding Fathers in defense of their policies and explains why their arguments are out of context and do not make sense within contemporary concerns.
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Language
English
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Description
'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the American public's collective memory and common perception of World War I by analyzing the extent to which it was expressed through the production of cultural artifacts related to the war. Through the analysis of four vectors of memory--war histories, memoirs, fiction, and film--the author shows that no consistent image or message about the war ever arose that resonated with a significant segment of the American population.--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums. What lies behind the phenomenon of Holocaust tourism, and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Reynolds argues that tourism to concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the...
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