In "Honor", these interviews mixed with my own narrative reflections are used to ask and answer questions that many ponder about family identity: What qualities do we claim from our ancestors, and what qualities do we seek to discard? What does it mean to truly honor or respect the people...
Like everybody else, Lincoln wanted to shorten the war, and he may well have believed that, although only about 200,000 of the antebellum South’s 4 million slaves had so far been liberated, the freeing of the 200,000 insured that the gate was open and the rest could not be held in ...
a servant and sets off on a daring adventure that brings her face to face with the horrors of war. Based on the true story of the displacement of Georgia mill workers, this book reveals a little-known aspect of the Civil War as it weaves a compelling and moving narrative around a ...
a combination of quoted passages and photographs to tell the narrative of Barcelona through these turbulent times. We finished in a bar called La Llibertària, where a final lecture and images brought us to the end of this thought provoking tour. The students on the whole were very impressed ...
Originally photographed on 16mm film and transferred with 1990 cutting-edge technology, the filmmakers have gone back to the original film and audio elements and completely re-transferred the series in a vastly superior format, as detailed in "The Civil War Reconstruction" featurette, on Disc 1. ...
The digital videos from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, which feature in war documentaries and inform the narrative strategies of several contemporary war films, provide a particular form of pathos and offer a variety of histories and fragments that contribute to the larger war story. The visual...
At the heart of the narrative is Patricia Hankey, later Alsop, affectionately known as Tish. Born in 1926, Tish spent her childhood in Gibraltar, a setting shaped by the Spanish Civil War and later the Second World War. Her education took her to England, where she left school at sixteen,...
The Kennedy Presidency, and his role in the history of a turbulent time, told through fast-paced narrative and illustrated with documents, photographs, artifacts, and audio recordings exclusive to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. ... C Kenney,MR Beschloss - PublicAffairs 被引量: 4发表...