National Trauma and Collective Memory: Major Events in the American Century

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This study of major traumas of the 20th century in America focuses on how the national responds to them, what those responses mean, and how nation traumas are similar and different to personal traumas. Coverage includes the Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the assassinations of Kennedy and King.

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Intelligence, Security, War Strategy Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Military History and Strategy

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Published in: Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 576-576

DOI: 10.2307/2655021

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National Trauma and Collective Memory: Major Events in the American Century

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