Title: National trauma and collective memory : major events in the American century /
Authors: Neal, Arthur G.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Crises Psychological aspects United States History; Memory Social aspects United States History; National characteristics, American; Crises United States Psychological aspects History; Collective memory United States History; United States History Case studies.; United States Social conditions Case studies.; United States Social conditions Case studies.
Contents: Collective sadness, fear, and anger -- Society as moral community -- The Great Depression -- The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- The communist menace -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The assassination of President Kennedy -- The Vietnam war -- The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Watergate affair -- Technological accidents : the Challenger explosion, travel accidents, Three Mile Island, calamities to come -- Collective memory.