National trauma and collective memory : major events in the American century /

National trauma and collective memory : major events in the American century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neal, Arthur G.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1998]
Subjects:
Crises > Psychological aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States > History > 20th century > Case studies.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Case studies.
United States > Social conditions > 1945- > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Collective sadness, fear, and anger
  • Society as moral community
  • The Great Depression
  • The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • The communist menace
  • The Cuban missile crisis
  • The assassination of President Kennedy
  • The Vietnam war
  • The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The Watergate affair
  • Technological accidents : the Challenger explosion, travel accidents, Three Mile Island, calamities to come
  • Collective memory.