National Trauma and Collective Memory

Download or read book National Trauma and Collective Memory written by Arthur G. Neal and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the major traumas of the 20th century in America -- the Depression, Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Vietnam, Watergate, Three Mile Island, the Challenger explosion -- how we responded to them as a nation, and what our responses mean.