Download or read book Troubled Commemoration written by Robert Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Commemoration written by Seth C. Bruggeman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and all manner of public historians who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. Its fourteen short essays are intended as tools for practitioners, students, and anyone else confronted with common problems in commemorative practice today. Of particular concern are strategies for expanding commemoration across the panoply of American identities, confronting tragedy and difficult pasts, and doing responsible work in the face of persistent economic and political turmoil. A special afterword explores the role of emotion in modern commemoration and what it suggests about possibilities for engaging new audiences.
Download or read book A Guide for Commemoration written by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. Commemoration Committee, Centennial Observance and Celebration and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Are What We Remember written by Laura Mattoon D’Amore and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes current trends in the study of historical memory that are particularly relevant to our own present – our biases, our politics, our contextual moment – and strive to name forgotten, overlooked, and denied pasts in traditional histories. Race, gender, and sexuality, for example, raise questions about our most treasured myths: where were the slaves at Jamestowne? How do women or lesbians protect and preserve their own histories, when no one else wants to write them? Our current social climate allows us to question authority, and especially the authoritative definitions of nation, patriotism, and heroism, and belonging. How do we “un-commemorate” things that were “mis-commemorated” in the past? How do we repair the damage done by past commemorations? The chapters in this book, contributed by eighteen emerging and established scholars, examine these modern questions that entirely reimagine the landscape of commemoration as it has been practiced, and studied, before.
Download or read book Nation and Commemoration written by Lyn Spillman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States and Australia to show how national identities can emerge from processes of 'cultural production'. She systematically analyses the symbols and meanings of national identity in these two 'new nations', identifying changes and continuities, similarities and differences in how visions of history, place in the world, politics, land, and diversity have been used to express nationhood. The result is a deeper understanding, not only of American and Australian national identities, but also of the global process of nation-formation.
Download or read book Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress in the United States House of Representatives September Twenty fifth Nineteen Hundred and Seventy four written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Book of Festivals and Commemorations written by Philip H. Pfatteicher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * An ecumenical calendar of saints and other Christian exemplars to enrich liturgy, group devotions, and personal prayer * Ecumenical, but also fully flagged for use in particular denominations
Download or read book Celebrating Shakespeare written by Clara Calvo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite status and how statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising Shakespeare.
Download or read book The Art of Commemoration written by Titus Ensink and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of transnational communication because it brought together representative speakers from all parties involved. They considered the commemorated event from different perspectives: the victim (Poland), the former enemy (Germany) and the former allies (England, USA, France and other countries, as well as Russia which liberated Poland but had not supported the Uprising). A letter from the Pope added a Catholic perspective. The 'art of commemoration' consists in invoking the past events from one's own perspective while simultaneously considering the other perspectives, as well as in making sense of the past and present at the same time. This volume analyses the artful way in which the speakers coped with these complexities in a full discourse analytic reconstruction of each address.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln Commemoration Ceremony written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Paine at the Paine Monument written by Thomas Paine Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remaking America written by John E. Bodnar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, John Bodnar explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the last century. Such forms of historical consciousness, he argues, do not necessarily preserve the past but rather address serious political matters in the present.--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Royal Society of London July 15 19 1912 written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebrating Insurrection written by Will Fowler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a problematic yet necessary practice. Although pronunciamientos rarely achieved the goals for which they were undertaken and sometimes resulted in armed rebellion, they were nonetheless both celebrated and commemorated, and the perceptions and representations of pronunciamientos themselves reflected the Mexican people’s response to these “revolutions.” The third in a series of books examining the pronunciamiento, this collection addresses the complicated legacy of pronunciamientos and their place in Mexican political culture. The essays explore the sacralization and legitimization of these revolts and of their leaders in the nation’s history and consider why these celebrations proved ultimately ineffective in consecrating the pronunciamiento as a force for good, rather than one motivated by desires for power, promotion, and plunder. Celebrating Insurrection offers readers interpretations of acts of celebration and commemoration that explain the uneasy adoption of pronunciamientos as Mexico’s preferred means of effecting political change during this turbulent period in the nation’s history.
Download or read book History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States History of the formation of the constitution and of the causes which led to its adoption by J A Kasson Biographies of the members of the Federal convention by H L Carson The constitution of the United States of America Amendments to the constitution History of the amendments to the constitution History of the Constitutional centennial commission by H L Carson Report of the committee on transportation by W J Latta Report of the medical director of the volunteer medical corps by C J Cleborne Report of the committee of reception of guests by W H Staake Report of the committee on music by W H Lex Selections from the correspondence of the commission The centennial celebration of the framing of the Constitution of the United States by a French spectator by L Vossion written by Hampton Lawrence Carson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remarks at the Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress written by Alistair Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States written by Hampton Lawrence Carson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
