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Linenthal explores the ways Oklahomans and Americans have tried to grapple with the catastrophe. Working with exclusive access to materials, he looks at how the bombing threatened ideas about American innocence, sparked debate on how to respond to terrorism at home and abroad, and engendered a new "bereaved community" in Oklahoma City itself. Illustrations.

An authoritative study of the nature of the American patriotic spirit as observed in its most hallowed memorials" (Kirkus Reviews), this book includes updates of each site, and offers the most thorough description and analysis of the 50th anniversary commemorations at Pearl Harbor. Photos.

Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted visitors more than 15 million visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10, 000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.

From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In "History Wars, " eight prominent his...