Angel Patriots

Author : Alexander T. Riley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479812595
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Patriots written by Alexander T. Riley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When United Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the gash it left in the ground became a national site of mourning. The flight’s 40 passengers became a media obsession, and countless books, movies, and articles told the tale of their heroic fight to band together and sacrifice their lives to stop Flight 93 from becoming a weapon of terror. In Angel Patriots, Alexander Riley argues that by memorializing these individuals as patriots, we have woven them into much larger story of our nation—an existing web of narratives, values, dramatic frameworks, and cultural characters about what it means to be truly American. Riley examines the symbolic impact and role of the Flight 93 disaster in the nation’s collective consciousness, delving into the spontaneous memorial efforts that blossomed in Shanksville immediately after the news of the crash spread; the ad-hoc sites honoring the victims that in time emerged, such as a Parks Department-maintained memorial close to the crash site and a Flight 93 Chapel created by a local Catholic priest; and finally, the creation of an official, permanent crash monument in Shanksville like those built for past American wars. Riley also analyzes the cultural narratives that evolved in films and in books around the events on the day of the crash and the lives and deaths of its “angel patriot” passengers, uncovering how these representations of the event reflect the myth of the authentic American nation—one that Americans believed was gravely threatened in the September 11 attacks. A profound and thought-provoking study, Angel Patriots unveils how, in the wake of 9/11, America mourned much more than the loss of life.

Author : Alexander Riley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479870471
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Patriots written by Alexander Riley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When United Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the gash it left in the ground became a national site of mourning. The flight’s 40 passengers became a media obsession, and countless books, movies, and articles told the tale of their heroic fight to band together and sacrifice their lives to stop Flight 93 from becoming a weapon of terror. In Angel Patriots, Alexander Riley argues that by memorializing these individuals as patriots, we have woven them into much larger story of our nation—an existing web of narratives, values, dramatic frameworks, and cultural characters about what it means to be truly American. Riley examines the symbolic impact and role of the Flight 93 disaster in the nation’s collective consciousness, delving into the spontaneous memorial efforts that blossomed in Shanksville immediately after the news of the crash spread; the ad-hoc sites honoring the victims that in time emerged, such as a Parks Department-maintained memorial close to the crash site and a Flight 93 Chapel created by a local Catholic priest; and finally, the creation of an official, permanent crash monument in Shanksville like those built for past American wars. Riley also analyzes the cultural narratives that evolved in films and in books around the events on the day of the crash and the lives and deaths of its “angel patriot” passengers, uncovering how these representations of the event reflect the myth of the authentic American nation—one that Americans believed was gravely threatened in the September 11 attacks. A profound and thought-provoking study, Angel Patriots unveils how, in the wake of 9/11, America mourned much more than the loss of life.

Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9781429932608
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Insurgents, American Patriots written by T. H. Breen and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national political origins that most Americans do not know. It is a story of rumor, charity, vengeance, and restraint. American Insurgents, American Patriots reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents, American Patriots is the stunning account of their insurgency, without which there would have been no independent republic as we know it.

Author : Marita Sturken
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811718
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism in American Memory written by Marita Sturken and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of cultural memory in American identity Terrorism in American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United States politics and culture in the post-9/11 era. Marita Sturken maintains that during the past two decades, when the country was subjected to terrorist attacks and promulgated ongoing wars of aggression, we have veered into increasingly polarized factions and been extraordinarily preoccupied with memorialization and the politics of memory. The post-9/11 era began with a hunger for memorialization and it ended with massive protests over police brutality that demanded the destruction of historical monuments honoring racist historical figures. Sturken argues that memory is both the battleground and the site for negotiations of national identity because it is a field through which the past is experienced in the present. The paradox of these last two decades is that it gave rise to an era of intensely nationalistic politics in response to global terrorism at the same time that it released the containment of the ghosts of terrorism embedded within US history. And within that disruption, new stories emerged, new memories were unearthed, and the story of the nation is being rewritten. For these reasons, this book argues that the post-9/11 era has come to an end, and we are now in a new still undefined era with new priorities and national demands. An era preoccupied with memory thus begins with the memorial projects of 9/11 and ends with the radical intervention of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the Lynching Memorial, in Montgomery, Alabama, a project that, unlike the nationalistic 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York, dramatically rewrites the national script of American history. Woven within analyses of memorialization, memorials, memory museums, art projects on memory, and architectural projects is a discussion about design and architecture, the increased creation of memorials as experiences, and the role of architecture as national symbolism and renewal. Terrorism in American Memory sheds light on the struggles over who is memorialized, who is forgotten, and what that politics of memory reveals about the United States as an imaginary and a nation.

Author : John M. Belohlavek
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939917
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies written by John M. Belohlavek and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies, John M. Belohlavek tells the story of women on both sides of the Mexican-American War (1846-48) as they were propelled by the bloody conflict to adopt new roles and expand traditional ones. American women "back home" functioned as anti-war activists, pro-war supporters, and pioneering female journalists. Others moved west and established their own reputations for courage and determination in dusty border towns or bordellos. Women formed a critical component of the popular culture of the period, as trendy theatrical and musical performances drew audiences eager to witness tales of derring-do, while contemporary novels, in tales resplendent with heroism and the promise of love fulfilled, painted a romanticized picture of encounters between Yankee soldiers and fair Mexican senoritas. Belohlavek juxtaposes these romantic dreams with the reality in Mexico, which included sexual assault, women soldaderas marching with men to provide critical supportive services, and the challenges and courage of working women off the battlefield. In all, Belohlavek shows the critical roles played by women, real and imagined, on both sides of this controversial war of American imperial expansion.

Author : Donald Hubbard
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633193721
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Donald Hubbard and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for Patriots fans who think they already know everything—updated through Super Bowl XLIX With pep talks, records, and Patriots lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every New England fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. All things Patriots are covered: the team's improbable run to Super Bowl XX, the origins of the Pat Patriot mascot, and the best Pats bar in the Boston area. This Dynasty Edition includes the Patriots' 2014 championship season and Super Bowl win over the Seattle Seahawks.

Author : John Davenport
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420513087
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Revolution written by John Davenport and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author John Davenport has compiled a fascinating, compelling, and colorful narrative about the American Revolution. After a thorough chronology, readers are introduced to the events leading up to the revolution. Readers will see how the world was turned upside down by the fact that a need for change, and the need for basic freedoms, could not be ignored.

Author : Shane Frederick
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515719936
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wacky Football Trivia written by Shane Frederick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes a variety of trivia facts about football"--

Author : John Bodnar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662620
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided by Terror written by John Bodnar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still simmers, and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical understandings of 9/11's legacy and the political life of the nation. John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict, revealing how fierce debates over the war are inseparable from debates about the meaning of patriotism itself. Bodnar probes how honor, brutality, trauma, and suffering have become highly contested in commemorations, congressional correspondence, films, soldier memoirs, and works of art. He concludes that Americans continue to be deeply divided over the War on Terror and how to define the terms of their allegiance--a fissure that has deepened as American politics has become dangerously polarized over the first two decades of this new century.

Author : Owen Finnegan
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1933212500
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Sports Firsts written by Owen Finnegan and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Finnegan defines ?Boston sports fan.' A Boston-area native and a semi-retired city worker in Wellesley, he has been a rabid follower of Boston's professional teams since childhood, and like many who grew up on Orr, Espo, and Cheevahs, he is a particular fan of the Bruins. But who else in Boston has collected four hundred books of sports trivia?! In this collection devoted to firsts involving the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins, Finnegan offers nearly 1,000 stumpers that range from questions the above-average fan should know (Q. Which two Sox outfielders' first three Major League hits were all home runs? A. Billy Conigliaro and Mike Greenwell) to questions that will amuse and entertain, even if you don't know the answers (Q. Which Celtic was the first player to break a backboard in the NBA? A. Chuck ?The Rifleman? Connors).