One powerful counter to the usual diminished intensity of memory withthe passage of time lies in trauma and various manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder. "The traumatized person,
The author is challenging the concept that time heals all wounds, and trauma can disrupt the normal timeline of a fading memory and can even intensify that memory.
As the Cold War dawned, it became clear that this school could not provide the necessaryinspiration for an America that envisioned itself a defender of global freedom and democracy.The Beardian approach was beaten back by the counter-Progressive or “Consensus” school,which emphasized the founders’ shared values and played down class conflict.
This just shows how important it is to Americans to view themselves as a global power and the ultimate protector of global freedom.
For generations, Hollywood movies, museum exhibits and, most of all,standard K-12 social-studies school curriculums had told a relatively simple, mostly stable andbasically uplifting story about the American past. Two decades or so downstream from thepolitical and historical paradigm shift of the 1960s, that began to change.
This shows how for generations the American story was told as simple and uplifting as possiible but that narrative changed in the 1960s do to the civil rights movement. If it wasnt for this shift how much would we truly know about our history today?
Like so many Black historians, Williams was writing against the grain, not only in his insistenceon the influence of slavery in shaping American institutions
This shows how Williams positioned himself against the dominate narritive in order show slavery was foundational to the development of America and not parallel to it.
Be ye doers of the word, not hearers only.
Clinton uses the bible to gain moral authority as well as this specific quote to refere back to MLK's constant message for action is need for change to happen.
'The vast majority of South Carolina says it's time to bringdown the flag now.
how is this claim more than an opinion but a political legitmacy or a straight up fact?
"outsiders and agitators"
this Shows how flag supports attempting to make the NAACP seem not legitament by shining them in this light.
Yet, as traditional Southern elites returned topower and inaugurated racial caste systems, black Americans focused on their emancipation, having lost aplace in Fourth of July and Decoration Day events in their broader community
there is a irony in celebrating freedom while being excluded from national holidays that say they honor liberty
“Emancipation Day Celebrations: The Commemoration of Slavery and Freedom in Iowa.”60 As Schwalmdemonstrates, in the 1850s, black people in Iowa thousands of miles from Britain and twenty years afteremancipation used the holiday as a moment of political culture, asserting their civil rights in Iowa
The fact that this happened 20 years after the emancipation just shows you that the fight for freedom is an ongoing thing and wasnt changed over night.
As Juneteenth spread throughout the United States as a festival after 1979, it emerged as an inspiration forpopular culture as well.49 Indeed, a significant amount of cultural output has come out of the festivalsdirectly.
why did the author use 1979 as the turning point and key moment when juneteenth spread culturally?What political or social changes explain the shift and why then?
The Great Migration brought blacks further afield throughout the country, including to the Midwest. Inthe 1970s, Doris Larkins introduced Juneteenth to Wichita, Kansas, getting it recognized as a municipalcelebration.
This shows the great migration didnt just move people but moved cultures and spread them around the US.
Not surprisingly, Juneteenth eventually became known as Black Independence Day,echoing Frederick Douglass’s famous line, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
In what ways is Juneteenth both a celebration and a protest against the jim crow era?