Research Guides: How Do Societies Remember (Bokovoy): Books & E-books

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Collective memory. Historical memory. Memorialization

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Selected Print and E-books on Historical Memory

American Culture in The 1960s by Sharon Monteith
This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s America - music and performance; film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography - as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade.
First City by Gary B. Nash
ISBN: 9780812202885
Publication Date: 2013-08-20
First City examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians--from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people--have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next.
Frames of Remembrance by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka
Publication Date: 1994
What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? These questions have a great deal in common, yet they are typically asked separately by people working in distinct research areas in different disciplines. This book will be of keen interest to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and professionals in communications studies.
Power and the Past by Eric Langenbacher
Publication Date: 2010
The ways in which the memories of past events are interpreted, misinterpreted, or even manipulated in public discourse create the context that shapes international relations. Power and the Past makes a contribution to developing a theory of memory and international relations and also examines specific cases of collective memoryas influence resulting from the legacies of World War II, the Holocaust, and September 11.
Presidents and Protesters by Theodore Windt
The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The "resounding rhetoric," from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book.
We Are What We Remember by Jeffrey Lee Meriwether
Publication Date: 2012
Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too.

Navigating History

Library of Congress Classification (call numbers) are useful to know for your area of concentration - it helps you locating books in the library stacks. Check the links below for detailed information about call number ranges. Each file shows the overview first; subsequent pages shows very detailed breakdown of the topic.

Class C - Auxiliary Sciences of History
Includes history of civilization and archeology
Class D - World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.
DA = Great Britain
DC = France
DD = Germany
DG = Italy
DK = Russia
DP = Spain and Portugal
DS = Asia
Class E-F -- History of the Americas
Class E = America / United States
Class F = US Local History (F791-805 = New Mexico)
Class F: 1201-3799 = Latin America. Spanish