The usable past, the comfortable past, and the civic past: Memory in contemporary America

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 423-435

  Blake, Casey Nelson ^a  

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EID: 0033175539     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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