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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With this second book, Nicole Eustace establishes herself as one of the premier cultural historians of the early American republic focusing in this work on the War of 1812 which was not really a success in any meaningful way, however it established passions for the country by appealing to the heart rather than the facts.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States nd how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"--
Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture...
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