Bicentennial Memories
Author | : Michigan. State Board of Education. Bicentennial Advisory Committee |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 |
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Author | : Michigan. State Board of Education. Bicentennial Advisory Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 |
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Author | : Tammy S. Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 |
ISBN | : 9781625340429 |
Examines the impact of the 1976 bicentennial on the way Americans celebrate the nation's past
Author | : M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469633876 |
During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and participated in living history events across the nation. While many of these activities were sparked by the Bicentennial, M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska shows that, in fact, they were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in Americans' relationship to history during the 1960s and 1970s. For the majority of the twentieth century, Americans thought of the past as foundational to, but separate from, the present, and they learned and thought about history in informational terms. But Rymsza-Pawlowska argues that the popular culture of the 1970s reflected an emerging desire to engage and enact the past on a more emotional level: to consider the feelings and motivations of historic individuals and, most importantly, to use this in reevaluating both the past and the present. This thought-provoking book charts the era's shifting feeling for history, and explores how it serves as a foundation for the experience and practice of history making today.
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Volunteer workers in forestry |
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Author | : Donald Earl Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780989256131 |
As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.
Author | : Dan Chiasson |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0385349815 |
From the acclaimed poet—a refreshing, singular collection of poems about boys and boyhood, historical cycles and personal history, memory and meaning. Bicentennial summons the world of Chiasson’s seventies childhood in Vermont: early VCRs, snow, erections, pizza, snowmobiles, high-school cliques, and the Bicentennial celebration, but his book is also an elegy for his father, whom he never knew and who died in 2009. In these poems, Chiasson movingly revisits the kind of autobiographical poems he wrote as a young man, but with a new existential awareness that individuals are always vanishing in time, and throughout the collection he ponders time’s conundrums. “All of history, even the Romans, / they happen later, tonight sleep tight,” he tells his sons at bedtime. “You’ll learn this later. Tonight, goodnight.” In the topsy-turvy world of Bicentennial, history has both happened and is waiting to happen; boys grow up to be men; men never forget what it is to be boys; and fatherhood is the best answer to fatherlessness.
Author | : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 |
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Author | : Michael D. Hattem |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2024-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300270879 |
The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly two hundred and fifty years, politicians, political parties, social movements, and a diverse array of ordinary Americans have constantly reimagined the Revolution to fit the times and suit their own agendas. In this sweeping take on American history, Michael D. Hattem reveals how conflicts over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution--including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution--have influenced the most important events and tumultuous periods in the nation's history; how African Americans, women, and other oppressed groups have shaped the popular memory of the Revolution; and how much of our contemporary memory of the Revolution is a product of the Cold War. By exploring the Revolution's unique role in American history as a national origin myth, Hattem shows how the meaning of the Revolution has never been fixed, how remembering the nation's founding has often done far more to divide Americans than to unite them, and how revising the past is an important and long‑standing American political tradition.
Author | : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 |
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Author | : David T. Gleeson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611170962 |
In March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two hundred years later, Great Britain, an instigator of the slave trade and the chief source of slaves sold into continental North America, was awash nationwide in commemorations of the ban. By contrast the bicentennial of the ban received almost no attention in the United States. Ambiguous Anniversary aims to remedy that omission and to explain the discrepancy between the two commemorative responses. Edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, this volume examines the impact that closing the international slave trade in 1808 had on Southern American economics, politics, and society. Recasting the history of slavery in the early Republic and the memory of slavery and abolition in American culture, the foreword, introduction, and ten essays in this volume present a complex picture of an important but partial step in America's long struggle toward the ambitious but ambiguous goal of liberty and justice for all.