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Van Weringh

Cuban Missile Crisis -- 50th Anniversary | Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center has c... - 3 views

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    The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, coming up this October
anonymous

Photos: The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Plog - 7 views

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    Amazing photos of the Berlin wall.
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
peter shaheen

9/11 in the Arts: An Anniversary Guide - 8 views

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    InterRelations Collaborative, Inc. A selected listing of events related to the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Events are ordered by opening or release date, and alphabetically for events on the same day. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more.
Lance Mosier

Civil War 150 - History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines - 19 views

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    Interactive Portal commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War.
Nate Merrill

50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War Commemoration - 5 views

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    Vietnam War Commemoration
Jennifer Carey

Virtual Jamestown - 16 views

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    Jamestown and the Virginia Experiment The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
Lance Mosier

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Institute. Public Programs and Ex... - 3 views

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    One Stop Shopping for Everything Civil War with 150th Anniversary.
Joseph Phelan

NEH launches Created Equal: The Long Civil Rights Struggle - 4 views

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was launched today to provide free access to documentary films highlighting ...

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Van Weringh

The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Printout -- TIME - 11 views

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    Time article from 1982, 20th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ginger Lewman

The Associated Press: Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race - 7 views

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    "It's almost like celebrating the Holocaust,"
mcaplan0

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech - 11 views

The edsitement website is most useful - not only for the Cold War but for many other topic - thanks Joseph

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Carrie Kotcho

September 11: Teaching Contemporary History - Free Online Conference for Teachers - 8 views

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    The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference, September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, for K-12 teachers. Designed to provide educators with resources and strategies for discussing the September 11 attacks at the 10th anniversary, the conference will include roundtable discussions with content experts and six workshop sessions. These sessions and the conference website highlight resources available at each organization, provide background information on September 11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.
David Korfhage

The 50th Anniversary of the Building of the Berlin Wall - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - 4 views

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    A multimedia site from the German magazine Der Speigel, with pictures of the building of the Berlin Wall, as well as some then-and-now comparison pictures.
Rob Jacklin

3D American Civil War on Google Earth - 18 views

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    "Informing you about 3D models of Civil War related places, buildings, and structures that are featured in Google Earth or created with the Sketchup software."
Nate Merrill

Rwanda's genocide - what happened, why it happened, and how it still matters ... - 8 views

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    "Rwanda's genocide - what happened, why it happened, and how it still matters"
David Hilton

History Classes Collaboration Project - 105 views

They're probably a bit young Ginger to interact with the high school history students on the network. It might be a worry if there were misunderstanding or other problems given the age gap. Eventu...

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