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Popular Media and the American Revolution
Shaping Collective Memory
The American Revolution--an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins--continues to live on in the public's memory. Each year on July 4th, the United States honors its history with fireworks and similar patriotic displays...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Journalism in a Culture of Grief
This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in...
Published August 15th 2007 by Routledge