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Journal articles on the topic "American Battle Monuments Commission"

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Santose, Rachel A. "An Engaging Remembrance: A Review of the American Battle Monuments Commission Website." DttP: Documents to the People 44, no. 1 (September 7, 2016): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v44i1.6062.

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Over 100,000 US military personnel died during World War I, with many of these deaths occurring directly on foreign battlefields. Public Law 389, enacted by the 66th Congress, as well as Public Law 360, enacted by the 80th Congress, allowed for a family’s repatriation of soldier remains to the United States for burial in a national or private cemetery. In 1919, however, the US War Department decided to establish permanent American military cemeteries in Europe and offered this option as an alternative to repatriation. To persuade family members to consent, the War Department needed to ensure these cemeteries were impressive and significant symbols of the American sacrifice on foreign soil; therefore, the War Department detailed a group of Army officers to serve as the Battle Monuments Board in 1921. Two years later, on March 4, 1923, Congress passed the Act for the Creation of an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), which established one authoritative organization under Title 36 of the United States Code to control the construction of monuments and memorials to the American military in foreign countries.
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Bergman, Teresa. "War and Remembrance: The Story of the American Battle Monuments Commission." Journal of American History 106, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 779–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz590.

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Lissovsky, Mauricio, and Ana Lígia Leite e Aguiar. "The Brazilian dictatorship and the battle of images." Memory Studies 8, no. 1 (October 8, 2014): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698014552404.

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In contrast to other South American countries, in Brazil, where a military dictatorship (1964–1985) incarcerated, tortured and ‘disappeared’ countless opponents, there have been very few initiatives to construct a public memory in the form of memorials and museums. Only recently, when the National Truth Commission was set up in 2012, debates on the importance of memory re-emerged, including a significant increase in the number of proposals to construct memorials of national importance, taking as their point of reference the coup in which the military seized power 50 years ago. This text offers a study of news sections dealing with memories of the Brazilian dictatorship and the activities of the National Truth Commission as they were reported in the daily press between 2012 and 2014 as well as visits to some of the monuments and memorials erected or planned after the end of the dictatorship in various parts of the country. Cases studied are divided into two groups: first, monuments stemming from the transition to democracy and the political pact that underwrote it, and second, cases that reflect the fragility of this pact and the efforts to undertake a revision of its terms. Rather than one succeeding the other, these two versions of memory are interdependent and have contested the hegemony of public initiatives to shape our memory of the period.
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Szymoniczek, Joanna. "Instytucjonalizacja współpracy w zakresie grobownictwa wojennego." Rocznik Polsko-Niemiecki, no. 23 (April 29, 2015): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/rpn.2015.23.04.

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Resting places of fallen soldiers – war cemeteries – are monuments to soldiers’ heroism, and thus are of special significance not only for those who have lost their loved ones, but also for entire nations, countries and communities. Therefore, such cemeteries are created under the provisions of relevant authorities, and then put under the special protection of the public. These issues are closely regulated by international law established throughout the twentieth century. Cemeteries are protected by the state on whose territory individual objects are placed. However, the problem of cemeteries is more and more often the responsibility of social organizations. According to the international humanitarian law of armed conflict, specific tasks in this respect are assigned to the tracing services of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, who deal with the registry of exhumation, inhumation and body transfer, hold deposits, establish the fate of victims of war and issue death certificates. Institutions that deal with exploration, keeping records, exhumation of remains and the construction or revaluation of the graves of fallen citizens buried outside the borders of their own countries include the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, the German People’s Union for the Care of War Graves, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Austrian Red Cross (Österreichisches Schwarzes Kreuz), the American Battle Monuments Commission, the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and the Italian Commissariat General for the Memory of Killed in War (Commissariato Generale per le Onoranze Caduti in Guerra). For political reasons, tasks related to war cemeteries are assigned to social organizations, because their actions are believed to be more effective and less bureaucratic than those of states.
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Zegveld, Liesbeth. "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and international humanitarian law: A comment on the Tablada Case." International Review of the Red Cross 38, no. 324 (September 1998): 505–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020860400091294.

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On 30 October 1997, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereafter the Commission) adopted its report in the so-calledTabladacase. The case concerned an attack launched by 42 armed persons on military barracks of the national armed forces in 1989 at La Tablada, Argentina. The attack precipitated a battle lasting approximately 30 hours and resulting in the deaths of 29 of the attackers and several State agents. The surviving attackers filed a complaint with the Commission alleging violations by State agents of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereafter the American Convention) and of rules of international humanitarian law. In its report the Commission examined in detail whether it was competent to apply international humanitarian law directly. It answered this question in the affirmative.
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Kolyagina, Natalia K. "Moscow Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of the Late 1990s - Middle 2000s in the Context of the Soviet and American-European Tradition of War Commemoration." Observatory of Culture, no. 5 (October 28, 2015): 110–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-5-110-116.

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The article reviews the monuments to events and participants of the Great Patriotic War which were built in Moscow during the first ten years of functioning of the Moscow City Commission for Monumental and Decorative Art. The mechanics of new monuments’ adjustment and installation in Moscow is analyzed in the article. Applying to the war memorial conceptions by J. Mayo, G. Mosse, E. Linenthal, J. Winter and others, the author endeavors to show what such monuments can symbolize in modern Moscow, which history will be chosen by their initiators to be fixed in the collective consciousness, and vice versa, what the monuments will never expose.
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LeMahieu, Michael. "Post-54: Reconstructing Civil War Memory in American Literature after Brown." American Literary History 33, no. 3 (August 5, 2021): 635–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab059.

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Abstract From a cultural fad of Confederate flags to a spate of schools named after Confederate generals, the 1954 Brown v. Board decision revived the memory of the US Civil War. In their collective effort of “massive resistance,” white southerners considered themselves carrying on the legacy of their Confederate ancestors, rebelling against the federal government and insisting upon states’ rights. In response to this revival, many mid-century writers revised Civil War memory. Ralph Ellison, for example, considered the Brown decision as yet another battle in an ongoing Civil War. The works of Black writers such as James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray, and Margaret Walker, as well as white writers such as Robert Lowell, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and Robert Penn Warren, revise Lost Cause cultural narratives as they reconstruct four sites of Civil War memory: monuments, schools, textbooks, and grandparents. Writers in the twenty-first century have extended the interest in Civil War memory, from the essays of Ta-Nehisi Coates to the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, to the fiction of George Saunders to the poetry of Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young. The return of Civil War memory in twenty-first-century literature anticipates and represents the resurgence of civil rights protest against ongoing, state-sanctioned racial violence.
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Kielbowicz, Richard B. "Origins of the Junk-Mail Controversy: A Media Battle over Advertising and Postal Policy." Journal of Policy History 5, no. 2 (April 1993): 248–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006734.

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On 30 June 1971, the tradition-bound U.S. Post Office, long steeped in politics, ceased operating as a cabinet-level department. The next day marked the birth of the U.S. Postal Service, a government corporation. This transformation, arguably the most fundamental restructuring of a major federal agency in American history, ended 180 years of congressional postal ratemaking. By ceding ratemaking authority to a commission, Congress hoped to elevate sound pricing principles and scrupulous administrative procedures over the impressionistic claims and political influences that had characterized the legislative process. Yet the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act could not wipe away two centuries of history. Ratemakers—whether legislators before 1971 or administrators thereafter—frequently found themselves confronted with mailers invoking tradition, history, and social values to bolster their arguments. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the struggle to find junk mail's proper place in postal policy.
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Hilton, Adam. "The Path to Polarization: McGovern-Fraser, Counter-Reformers, and the Rise of the Advocacy Party." Studies in American Political Development 33, no. 1 (February 18, 2019): 87–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x19000014.

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American politics has been transformed by the emergence of the advocacy party—a form of organization in which extraparty interest groups, advocacy organizations, and social movements substitute for the diminished institutional capacity and popular legitimacy of the formal party apparatus. Many scholars have rightly pointed to the presidential nomination reforms made by the Democratic Party's post-1968 Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection (known as the McGovern-Fraser Commission) as a key contributor to polarization by increasing the influence of ideological activists. However, I argue that polarization is not the direct result of the actions of McGovern-Fraser reformers, but rather the outcome of their pitched battle with intraparty opponents of reform, who, while failing to prevent changes to presidential nominations, were ultimately successful in defeating the party-building dimension of the reformers’ project of party reconstruction. The product of their intraparty struggle was a hybrid institutional amalgam that layered new participatory arrangements over a hollow party structure, thus setting the Democratic Party on a path toward the advocacy party and its polarizing politics.
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Gaido, Daniel. "Archive Marxism and the Union Bureaucracy: Karl Kautsky on Samuel Gompers and the German Free Trade Unions." Historical Materialism 16, no. 3 (2008): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920608x315266.

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AbstractThis work is a companion piece to ‘The American Worker’, Karl Kautsky's reply to Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? (1906), first published in English in the November 2003 edition of this journal. In August 1909 Kautsky wrote an article on Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, on the occasion of the latter's first European tour. The article was not only a criticism of Gompers's anti-socialist ‘pure-and-simple’ unionism but also part of an ongoing battle between the revolutionary wing of German Social Democracy and the German trade-union officials. In this critical English edition we provide the historical background to the document as well as an overview of the issues raised by Gompers' visit to Germany, such as the bureaucratisation and increasing conservatism of the union leadership in both Germany and the United States, the role of the General Commission of Free Trade Unions in the abandonment of Marxism by the German Social-Democratic Party and the socialists' attitude toward institutions promoting class collaboration like the National Civic Federation.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Battle Monuments Commission"

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Haus, David R. "Expertise at war the National Committee on Education by Radio, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Federal Radio Commission and the battle for American radio /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1151521658.

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Haus, David Russell Jr. "EXPERTISE AT WAR: THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BY RADIO, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, THE FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICAN RADIO." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151521658.

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Volfová, Anna. "Paměť starého Jihu: Pozůstatky občanské války optikou amerických reenactors." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-405806.

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This diploma thesis focuses on the role of the American Civil War memory in the American society today. It examines this phenomenon through the perception of American Civil War reenactors. The thesis analyses their opinions on the current issues that are linked to the history of this conflict - the omnipresence of the Confederate monuments and the Confederate battle flag in the American public space. It also explores the subject of the Southern identity, the role of the Confederacy in its formation and whether the ideas of the Confederacy are still present in the South today. It is necessary to understand the Southern mentality and how it is perceived by the rest of the United States, because the individual characteristics of the Southern identity are reflected in the current debates on the Confederate heritage. An idea that interconnects the individual chapters of the thesis is that the American Civil War memory is strongly influenced by the Lost Cause ideology and the overall mythologization of the conflict. While the Civil War reenactors' main motivation is to educate society about the conflict, their opinions are also mostly supportive of the romantic perception of the Confederacy.
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Books on the topic "American Battle Monuments Commission"

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United States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division, ed. American Battle Monuments Commission. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1994.

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Elizabeth, Nishiura, and American Battle Monuments Commission, eds. American battle monuments: A guide to military cemeteries and monuments maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Detroit, Mich: Omnigraphics, 1989.

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Commission, American Battle Monuments, ed. FY 2001 ANNUAL REPORT... AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. [S.l: s.n., 2002.

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Commission, American Battle Monuments, ed. FY 1999 ANNUAL REPORT... AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. [S.l: s.n., 2002.

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Commission, American Battle Monuments, ed. FY 2000 ANNUAL REPORT... AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. [S.l: s.n., 2002.

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Commission, American Battle Monuments, ed. FY 98 ANNUAL REPORT... AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. [S.l: s.n., 2002.

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Commission, American Battle Monuments, ed. ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1994... AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. [S.l: s.n., 2002.

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United States. General Accounting Office, ed. Financial audits: American Battle Monuments Commission : statement of David L. Clark, Director, Audit Oversight and Liaison, Accounting and Information Management Division, before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 2000.

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Affairs, United States Congress House Committee on Veterans'. American Battle Monuments Commission and National Cemetery System amendments: Report (to accompany H.R. 1414) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1989.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Cemetery improvements amendments of 1987: Report (to accompany H.R. 2957) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Battle Monuments Commission"

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Conner, Thomas H. "The American Battle Monuments Commission and World War II, 1939–1945." In War and Remembrance, 143–75. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0006.

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This chapter discusses the measures taken in order to secure the safety of the American memorials and the employees who tended them during the Second World War. Concern over the spreading war and growing hardship culminated in the evacuation of all the American employees of the commission, along with their dependents, from France and Belgium in 1941. Surprisingly, the monuments only suffered minor damage during the war. This chapter also highlights the efforts of army captain Charles G. Holle and Colonel T. Bentley Mott, the last two Americans to lead the Paris office of the ABMC before the United States entered the war, to preserve the memorial sites. Mott actually returned to wartime France in 1942 to supervise such efforts directly, and ultimately spent months in German custody. When the Allied armies liberated the ABMC sites in 1944, General Eisenhower sent an extremely joyful cable to Pershing announcing the good condition of the cemeteries and monuments.
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"The American Battle Monuments Commission and World War II, 1939–1945." In War and Remembrance, 143–75. The University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3znxtf.11.

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Conner, Thomas H. "The Agency and Its Mission." In War and Remembrance, 1–14. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0001.

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The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was created by an act of Congress in 1923. For more than ninety years the ABMC has been one of the smallest independent federal agencies. This chapter introduces the coming text and that the book will endeavor to show that the commission has been entrusted with one of the nation’s most important tasks: to honor and promote remembrance of the service and the sacrifice of American soldiers in foreign wars and to preserve the sites overseas where tens of thousands of them lie buried.
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"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights." In The Battle of Human Rights, 113–59. Brill | Nijhoff, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004478497_007.

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Marino, Katherine M. "The Great Feminist Battle of Montevideo." In Feminism for the Americas, 96–119. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649696.003.0005.

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The chapter explores how tensions over Doris Stevens’s leadership exploded at the 1933 Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, where Bertha Lutz launched serious challenges against her. There, Lutz allied with representatives from the U.S. State Department and U.S. Women’s and Children’s Bureaus in the new administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, including Sophonisba Breckinridge, who also opposed Stevens’s leadership of the Commission. The conflict between Stevens’s “equal rights” feminism, focused on political and civil rights, versus an inter-American feminism that also encompassed social and economic justice, became even more pronounced in the wake of the Great Depression, Chaco War, and revolutions throughout Latin America. Feminist debates took center stage in Montevideo. There, Lutz promoted women’s social and economic concerns. But her assumptions of U.S./Brazilian exceptionalism prevented her from effectively allying with growing numbers of Spanish-speaking Latin American feminists who opposed Stevens’s vision. The 1933 conference pushed forward the Commission’s treaties for women’s rights, and four Latin American countries signed the Equal Rights Treaty. It also inspired more behind-the-scenes organizing by various Latin American feminists and statesmen, including the formation of a new group, the Unión de Mujeres Americanas, that would later bear fruit.
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Conner, Thomas H. "The New Commission Goes to Work, 1923–1938." In War and Remembrance, 52–82. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0003.

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This chapter gives an overview of the ABMC’s first fifteen years as an official independent federal agency. Adding to the work of the Graves Registration Service and the National Commission of Fine Arts, it beautified the eight European cemeteries, added eleven monuments and two commemorative plaques, formulated polices to regulate against the proliferation of private and non-federal American war memorials in Europe, and built relationships with other federal agencies. As a new agency, the ABMC’s primary job was to begin notifying the public of its existence, and one way of accomplishing that was by securing a permanent office in Europe, which opened in 1924 in Paris. This new base in Europe allowed the ABMC to establish a firmer foothold across the Atlantic and a means to further monitor the work that was being accomplished there.
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Smolla, Rodney A. "Kessler v. Bellamy." In Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, 49–52. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0008.

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This chapter explains how Charlottesville became the epicenter of the national debate over Confederate monuments. It discusses the colourful sideshow battle between Wes Bellamy, a local African American teacher, activist, and political leader, and Jason Kessler, Charlottesville's emerging alt-right supremacist man-on-the-scene. Kessler was offended by Bellamy's crusade against the Robert E. Lee statue and created a crusade of his own to remove Bellamy. Kessler searched Bellamy's Twitter account for embarrassing posts and published several of Bellamy's tweets on his own blog to call for Bellamy's resignation or removal from office. This chapter narrates the events of December 2016 when Kessler launched a petition drive demanding that Bellamy resign or be removed due to anti-white, racist and pro-rape comments.
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Smolla, Rodney A. "The Charleston Massacre." In Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, 9–13. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0002.

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This chapter talks about Dylann Storm Roof, a white supremacist, who brutally murdered nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. It discusses Roof's actions that renewed debates over guns, the Second Amendment, and the right to bear arms. The Charleston massacre changed the dynamics of American debate over symbols of the Confederacy, including the Confederate battle flag and monuments to Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. This chapter also looks at events prior to Roof committing the murders, in which he toured South Carolina historical sites with links to the Civil War and slavery, posting photographs and selfies of his visits. Roof's online website, which was infested with attacks on African Americans, Hispanics, and Jews, described the story of his racist radicalization.
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Yoshihara, Mari. "A Quiet Place." In Dearest Lenny, 118–27. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465780.003.0013.

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With a joint commission by the Houston Grand Opera, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Teatro alla Scala, Leonard Bernstein undertook a serious new endeavor he had long wished for: the composition of a serious opera. By collaborating with librettist Stephen Wadsworth, Bernstein sought to create an “American opera” that took on real-life issues of the contemporary United States and expressed them in a distinctly American language. He centered the opera A Quiet Place on the issues of gender, sexuality, and family, which drove American politics during this period. The rising New Right turned “family values” into an ideology, the battle over which was further fueled by the AIDS epidemic. In the highly charged political environment of Houston, where the opera premiered, Bernstein challenged the prevailing social mores and eloquently advocated for AIDS research and support.
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Toomey, Michael. "Our Common Country." In North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders, 88–110. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651200.003.0005.

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John Sevier settled in the Watauga region on the North Carolina frontier shortly before the American Revolution. A veteran Indian fighter, Sevier soon entered politics and received a commission as a militia officer. Campaigns against the Cherokee and his role in the defeat of British forces at the Battle of King’s Mountain made him a hero among many backcountry whites. After North Carolina indicated a willingness to cede its western lands to Congress, Sevier served briefly as governor of the ill-fated “state” of Franklin. After the cession was completed, Sevier became the first governor of the new state of Tennessee. A pragmatist if not an opportunist, Sevier seems to have been driven by a desire for western land, not by political ideology or a sense of American nationalism.
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Conference papers on the topic "American Battle Monuments Commission"

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MacDonald, Katie, and Kyle Schumann. "Camp Barker Memorial: From Object to Urban Mediator." In 109th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.109.84.

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Located in northeast Washington D.C., the Camp Barker Memorial responds to the landscape of American monuments that valorize performance in battle, instead taking form as a series of spatial markers which convey a complicated his-tory. The memorial was designed and commissioned in early 2017, before the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville heightened national attention to the sustained symbolism of Confederate Civil War monuments, and completed in mid 2019, before the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. The project’s development corresponds with a period when the role of Civil War monuments is being reconsidered and advocates for the significance of counternarratives.
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