ISBN:
9781606351192
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 257 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Symposium on democracy series
DDC:
378.771/37
Keywords:
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 Congresses
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Collective memory Congresses
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Mass media Congresses Social aspects
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Kent State and historical memory / Thomas M. Grace -- Kent State comes to Canada : internationalizing the antiwar movement / Christopher Powell -- Remembering injustice and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter -- Visualizing the limits of democracy in the silence of the cold war : the photography of Life magazine and the unraveling of the American century / Devan Bissonette -- Lost history/lost democracy : media culture and the 1960s / Edward P. Morgan -- "Of loss and learning" : how anniversary coverage affects understanding of May 4, 1970 / Janet Leach and Mitch McKenney -- Wars on trial in three landmark documentary films : Night and fog, Hearts and minds, and Taxi to the dark side / Daniel L. Miller and Suzanne Clark -- The role of forgetting in remembering : the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas / Cathy J. Collins -- Confronting the legacies of violence : lessons from Kent State and Greensboro, North Carolina / Renee Romano -- Social remembering and Kent State / Jerry M. Lewis -- Appendix: This we know : chronology of the shootings at Kent State, May 1970 / Carole A. Barbato, Laura L. Davis, and Mark F. Seeman
Description / Table of Contents:
Kent State and historical memory / Thomas M. GraceKent State comes to Canada : internationalizing the antiwar movement / Christopher Powell -- Remembering injustice and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter -- Visualizing the limits of democracy in the silence of the cold war : the photography of Life magazine and the unraveling of the American century / Devan Bissonette -- Lost history/lost democracy : media culture and the 1960s / Edward P. Morgan -- "Of loss and learning" : how anniversary coverage affects understanding of May 4, 1970 / Janet Leach and Mitch McKenney -- Wars on trial in three landmark documentary films : Night and fog, Hearts and minds, and Taxi to the dark side / Daniel L. Miller and Suzanne Clark -- The role of forgetting in remembering : the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas / Cathy J. Collins -- Confronting the legacies of violence : lessons from Kent State and Greensboro, North Carolina / Renee Romano -- Social remembering and Kent State / Jerry M. Lewis -- Appendix: This we know : chronology of the shootings at Kent State, May 1970 / Carole A. Barbato, Laura L. Davis, and Mark F. Seeman.
Note:
Essays based on and revised from presentations at the 2009 Kent State University Symposium on Democracy
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Kent State and historical memory
,
Kent State comes to Canada : internationalizing the antiwar movement
,
Remembering injustice and the social construction of silence
,
Visualizing the limits of democracy in the silence of the cold war : the photography of Life magazine and the unraveling of the American century
,
Lost history/lost democracy : media culture and the 1960s
,
"Of loss and learning" : how anniversary coverage affects understanding of May 4, 1970
,
Wars on trial in three landmark documentary films : Night and fog, Hearts and minds, and Taxi to the dark side
,
The role of forgetting in remembering : the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
,
Confronting the legacies of violence : lessons from Kent State and Greensboro, North Carolina
,
Social remembering and Kent State
,
Appendix: This we know : chronology of the shootings at Kent State, May 1970
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36481
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