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Transatlantica, 2018 In the wake of the Charleston (June 17, 2015) and Charlottesville (August 12, 2017) tragedies, part of the American public started demanding that monuments erected in praise of Confederate leaders, mostly at the turn of the twentieth century, be removed.
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
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Confederate War Grief Transformed: the Openness of Memorials to New Meanings
In_Bo, 2018 Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still contested internecine war over slavery, social equity, and public values. Today there is a heated debate about physical monuments honoring Confederate leaders and
Phoebe Crisman
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Panorama, 2018 Confederate Monuments and the Inevitable Forces of Change Contrary to popular perception, monuments are not immutable or unchanging edifices; instead, there can be adjustments and adaptations according to the circumstances of their environments.
Sarah Beetham
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Juxtapositioned Memory: Lost Cause Statues and Sites of Lynching
Modern Languages Open, 2020 The paper explores both ‘official’ historical attempts to counter Lost Cause narratives of the former Confederacy, but also the moves towards re-memorialization in the form of statue removal as well as sites that bring forth what has been lost or ...
Brent Steele
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“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South
Panorama, 2020 As Americanists, reckoning with the South might also help us to understand its diverse regional histories and reflect upon broader national contemporary discourses, both from within and without.
Naomi Slipp
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment.
Daphna Yeshua‐Katz +2 more
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HumanitiesThe American Civil War has been commemorated with a great variety of monuments, memorials, and markers. These monuments were erected for a variety of reasons, beginning with memorialization of the fallen and later to honor aging veterans, commemoration ...
John H. Jameson
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Geophysical Investigations at the Artemision at Amarynthos of Euboea (Greece)
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A combination of resistivity mapping and three‐dimensional electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was used to investigate the subsurface of the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia in Amarynthos, Euboea (Greece), an area where archaeological remains from the Bronze Age to the post‐Byzantine period are preserved.
G. N. Tsokas +5 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Satellite remote sensing is among the most significant modern methodologies supporting field archaeology. In addition to its efficiency in identifying archaeological sites, remote sensing offers a safe and cost‐effective approach in conflict zones.
Amal Al Kassem +5 more
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Dell Upton, Distinguished Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Los Angeles
Panorama, 2018 A monument leads an unhappy life. The best it can hope for is to molder quietly under a mantle of pigeon droppings, for when the people or events it celebrates attract a critical eye, its travails begin. Because a monument holds up its subject to memory,
Dell Upton
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