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Troubled Commemoration
Author | : Robert Cook |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807137006 |
In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of United States Civil War Centennial and reveals how the broad-based public history extravaganza was derailed by its appearance during the decisive phase of the civil rights movement.
Centennial Memories
Author | : Snail Lake School (Shoreview, Minn.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Fenway Park: The Centennial
Author | : Saul Wisnia |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780312642747 |
Honoring the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, this is a nostalgic and reverent look at America's # 1 baseball shrine--the national treasure that has been home to more than 600 straight sellouts and some of baseball's greatest games and players over the last century Relive 100 years of memories in Fenway Park with this monumental book-with an original DVD documentary hosted by Carlton Fisk. With supreme photography, a wealth of memorabilia, and original commentary by three generations of Boston Red Sox players and fans, this book celebrates the stadium in style. It also includes treasures from the Sports Museum of New England—rarely seen photographs and artifacts—that enhance the nostalgic experience. FENWAY PARK: THE CENTENNIAL is a visually stunning and thoroughly engaging celebration of this great monument and its 100 year history. Packed with original essays, commentary and history, this landmark book includes sections on: • The inception, construction, and early years of Fenway Park • Detailed looks at Red Sox legends from Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz • The greatest moments of the Green Monster, Fenway's most famous feature • A trip inside the Monster's manually operated scoreboard • Fenway fans and their love affair with the legendary stadium through the years • Unforgettable seasons, including the Impossible Dream team and the 2004 World Series champs
Remembering the Centennial
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Volunteer workers in forestry |
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Places of Memory and Legacies in an Age of Insecurities and Globalization
Author | : Gerry O'Reilly |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030609820 |
In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates. This volume shows how memorialization can contribute to wider inclusive interpretations of history, tourism and human rights promoted by the European Project. It's geographies of memories can foster cooperation as witnessed throughout Europe during the 2014-18 WWI commemorations. Due to new world orders, geopolitical reconfigurations and ideals that emerged after 1918, many countries ranging from the Baltic and Russia to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece, eastern and central Europe to Ireland are continuing with commemorations regarding their specific memories in the wider Europe. Shared memorial spaces can act in post conflict areas as sites of reconciliation; nonetheless `the peace' cannot be taken for granted with insecurities, globalization, and nationalisms in the USA and Russia; the UK's Brexit stress and populist movements in Western Europe, Visegrád and Balkan countries. Citizen-fatigue is reflected in socio-political malaise mirrored in France's Yellow Vest movement and elsewhere. Empathy with other peoples' places of memory can assist citizens learn from the past. Memory sites promoted by the EU, Council of Europe and UNESCO may tend to homogenize local memories; nevertheless, they act as vectors in memorialization, stimulating debate and re-evaluating narratives. This textbook combines geographical, inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches and perspectives on spaces of memory by a range of authors from different countries and traditions offers the reader diverse and holistic perspectives on cultural geography, dynamic geopolitics, globalization and citizenship.
The Unfinished Exhibition
Author | : Susanna Gold |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315453126 |
The Unfinished Exhibition, the first comprehensive examination of American art at the Centennial, explains the critical role of visual culture in negotiating memories of the nation’s past that conflicted with the optimism that Exhibition officials promoted. Supporting novel iconographical interpretations with myriad primary source material, author Susanna W. Gold demonstrates how the art galleries and the audiences who visited them addressed the lingering traumas of battle, the uneasy re-unification of North and South, and the persisting racial tensions in the post-Emancipation era.
Memories That Live
Author | : Nettie Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258422646 |
Additional Contributor Is Emma C. Beardall. Foreword By Edith Young Booth, Julia Bateman Jensen, And Algie Eggertsen Ballif.