Author: William Robertson GarrettPublisher:
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
American Historical Magazine
Author: William Robertson GarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The American Historical Magazine
Author: The Papers of Thomas Ruffin
Author: Thomas RuffinPublisher:
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Author: Lindsey A. FreemanPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178238281X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.
A Checklist of American Imprints, 1820-1829
Author: M. Frances CooperPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810805132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This printers, publishers and booksellers index is modeled after Bristol's Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography. Each entry contains a name and place, with item numbers listed underneath by date. Personal names are listed in the most complete form that could be determined. Corporate names are listed in the form used by the Library of Congress. Newspapers and magazines are entered by their full titles as recorded in Brigham's American Newspapers, 1821-1936 and Union List of Serials. Also included is a geographical index by city and a list of omissions with explanations.
The False Cause
Author: Adam H. DombyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious goal; it was founded on falsehoods. The False Cause focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day. Domby explores how fabricated narratives about the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery—as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies—were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history’s greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism, and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white Southerners. Domby shows how the dubious concept of "black Confederates" was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as "loyal slaves." The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.
history
Author: John Trotwood MoorePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina. Department of JusticePublisher:
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. PowellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
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