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Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.   

Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle attached to the 14th Army. Running a mobile canteen, navigating treacherous roads and dodging hostile gunfire, they soon become embroiled in life-threatening battles of their own - battles that will haunt the women for the rest of their lives. 

A long-kept secret is revealed long after the battlefield death of a beloved and courageous West Point army officer in the Vietnam War. His young widow, in an act of love, had climbed up to the treacherous north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps with his ashes. In the casket in which his body had returned from war, she placed beloved memorabilia of their marriage and all, except one, of the hundreds of letters he had written to her.

Reunion is a podcast about how family history helps us understand the past and why it matters in the present. The series is sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy and the Family History Program at Brigham Young University, which offers the only undergraduate degree in family history. Every two weeks we speak with scholars, educators, and storytellers who use family history to ask large questions about history, kinship, and identity. Studying families shows what mattered most to people in the past and how those values shaped the world we inhabit now. Family history is more ...

This reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees who descended upon a town of four thousand during the summer of 1913 with the promise of little more than a cot and two blankets, military fare, and the presence of countless adversaries from a horrific war. Most were revisiting a time and place in their personal history that involved acute physical and emotional trauma. Contrary to popular belief, veterans were not motivated to attend by a desire for reconciliation, nor did the Great Reunion produce a general sense of a reunified country.

This audiobook is about those days, specifically about Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the war at home; about the thousands upon thousands of everyday Americans who joined hands as strangers in a near classless society and secretly pulled off the greatest scientific experiment in history - the making of the atomic bomb. We, the Oak Ridge High Class of 1952, were their children and we, too, joined hands as strangers. We have never let go.

Récits, vies oubliées et légendes connues seulement iciPendant plus de 400 ans, L'île de la Réunion s’est construite à travers des récits transmis oralement, des légendes populaires et des pages d’histoire longtemps laissées dans l’ombre.Derrière les paysages spectaculaires et l’image de carte postale, l’île porte une mémoire riche, complexe, parfois dérangeante mais essentielle à comprendre.Ce podcast vous emmène à la découverte des histoires cachées de La Réunion : des légendes connues des Réunionnais mais méconnues ailleurs, des événements fondateurs, et ...

Welcome to The Reunion Podcast, your gateway to the roots of Haitian hip-hop! 🇭🇹 Join host DJ Aku as we embark on a musical journey down memory lane, reconnecting with the legends of old school and underground Haitian rap.

A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy. Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves by...

Late September 2010, 72 Americans gathered in Philadelphia to become United States Peace Corps Volunteers. Those 72 PCVs were sent to serve their country in Mozambique, a sub-Sahara African country formerly colonized by the Portuguese. They were the fifteenth group of PCVs to serve in Mozambique. They are Moz 15. What's everyone up to over a decade later? Listen to find out.

In the middle of August 1944, the Soviet Red Army crossed the eastern border of Romania and threatened the entire position of the Axis in the Balkans. On August 23, Romania's King Michael summoned the head of the government to the royal palace and asked him to break with the Germans and negotiate surrender terms with the Soviet Union. Shortly thereafter, Michael took Romania out of the war and issued an ultimatum that the German forces leave the country within three days.

High school memories, life stories, and mid-life reflection from interviews with Willowbrook HS class of '01 graduates.

The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. “[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg,” declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins’s The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long way toward making sure the world will remember.

We will revisit the 51 Stories of Hope, Inspiration and Love from those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS as they first appeared in the 2001 book Season's of Hope... Spring, written and compiled by Stephen Potchatek. We will hear from many of the original authors and discuss the story behind the stories and catch up with them after more than 20 years. We will also discuss the impact of the original stories from those that are no longer with us and the impact those stories have even today. Join us for the reunion!!

„Chaos & Glory“ ist die erste mehrteilige deutschsprachige Audio-Doku über Oasis. In neun Folgen nehmen wir dich mit – von den ersten Gigs in Manchester bis zur Rückkehr auf die ganz großen Bühnen der Reunion Tour. Oasis war mehr als nur Musik. Sie standen für Haltung, Rebellion und große Gefühle. Ihre Songs wurden zum Soundtrack einer ganzen Generation. Der Podcast zeigt nicht nur die Band, sondern auch ihr Echo: Musiker, Weggefährten, Kritiker und Fans erzählen, was Oasis mit ihnen gemacht hat. Nah dran, persönlich und mit viel Leidenschaft.

Une invitation au voyage proposée par Anne Bonneau. Partez à la découverte, à la rencontre des cultures du monde et de ses habitants.