Democratic narrative, history, and memory [electronic resource] / edited by Carole A. Barbato and Laura L. Davis.

Essays based on and revised from presentations at the 2009 Kent State University Symposium on Democracy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kent State and historical memory / Thomas M. Grace -- Kent State comes to Canada : internationalizing the antiwar movement / Christopher Powell -- Remembering injustice and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter -- Visualizing the limits of democracy in the silence of the cold war : the photography of Life magazine and the unraveling of the American century / Devan Bissonette -- Lost history/lost democracy : media culture and the 1960s / Edward P. Morgan -- "Of loss and learning" : how anniversary coverage affects understanding of May 4, 1970 / Janet Leach and Mitch McKenney -- Wars on trial in three landmark documentary films : Night and fog, Hearts and minds, and Taxi to the dark side / Daniel L. Miller and Suzanne Clark -- The role of forgetting in remembering : the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas / Cathy J. Collins -- Confronting the legacies of violence : lessons from Kent State and Greensboro, North Carolina / Renee Romano -- Social remembering and Kent State / Jerry M. Lewis -- Appendix: This we know : chronology of the shootings at Kent State, May 1970 / Carole A. Barbato, Laura L. Davis, and Mark F. Seeman.

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