"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama and how they have approached key decisions regarding conflicts while in office"--P…
Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town, T.H. Breen. Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South, Will…
America's leading historians talk about the sites where the past comes alive for them.
Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town, T.H. Breen. Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South, Will…
This book surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about American culture. In memoralizing individual citizens, these obits from the 19th and early 20th centuries make a public expression of our values.
This book surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about American culture. In memoralizing individual citizens, these obits from the 19th and early 20th centuries make a public expression of our values.
"The Complicated Story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War is powerfully conveyed in Robert G. Moeller's highly original study. Moeller rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence…
Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past.
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes which have led to this development, among them the passing of the two World Wars from survivor into cultural memory. F…
This book examines the relationship between coloniser and colonised among the Italian-held Dodecanese Islands between 1912 and 1943, and is based on an oral history project conducted between 1990 and 1995. Italian power is described as having been negotiated, resisted and modifi…
Historiografie van de Lage Landen in de zeventiende eeuw.