Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
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.
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