A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 528 pp. Nations and nationhood are themselves ideas, albeit among the most ...

All countries have national myths. The story of the first Thanksgiving, for example, evokes the warm glow of intercultural contact: European settlers, struggling to survive in the New World ...

Myth No. 2 During the Cold War ... In his book “Glass Houses,” for example, former National Security Agency inspector general Joel Brenner imagines China using a series of devastating ...

For example, one commonly repeated myth is that Challenger exploded 73 ... space shuttle curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. "I think the origin of that myth is ...

The myth of the frontier traces our national origin to the colonial settlements and the westward expansion that followed. It enshrines a distinctively American concept of capitalist development ...

The story of that night became lore — and the lore evolved into national myth. The Boston Tea Party ... a story validates both the person and the example. Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks and ...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is fraught with myths, one of the most persistent ... Enjoy the latest local, national and international news. Enjoy the latest local, national and international ...

Every year on January 25, India observes National Voters Day ... Despite their widespread success and trustworthiness, several myths and misconceptions about EVMs continue to circulate.