Contents |
Introduction: the meanings of collective memory and generation -- Revising collective memories -- Collective memories and counter-memories of Christopher Columbus -- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: sex, slavery, and science -- Abraham Lincoln: "honest Abe" versus "the great emancipator" -- The critical years and other sources of collective memory -- The critical years hypothesis: the idea and the evidence -- Cross-national replications and extensions -- Beyond critical years effects -- Does emigration affect collective memory? -- Generational experience of war and the development of new attitudes -- Autobiographical memory versus collective memory -- Collective knowledge: findings and losings -- Commemoration matters: the past in the present -- Closing reflections. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2014046112 |
ISBN | 9780226282527 cloth alk. paper |
ISBN | 022628252X cloth alk. paper |
ISBN | 9780226282664 paperback alk. paper |
ISBN | 022628266X paperback alk. paper |
ISBN | e-book |