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Moments in time
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. holds the pocketwatch of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. A legend circulated about a hidden message inside the watch, and on March 11, The Washington Post confirmed the legend was in fact true.
The message, inscribed by watchmaker Jonathan Dillon on April 13, 1861, reads, “Fort Sumter was attacked by the rebels on the above date. ... Thank God we have a government.” Dillon was repairing Lincoln’s watch when the first shots of the Civil War were fired. It is strangely touching to know that the president kept tokens of the people’s patriotism with him throughout the Civil War.
Kim Gu was the last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and a leader of the Korean independence movement; he’s also known by the pen name Baekbeom. The Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea has announced that 19 of his possessions will be registered as cultur
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East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence 0415637457, 9780415637459
Table of contents : • "Bibliography". "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, edited by Constanza Cordoni and Gerhard Langer, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 791-874. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283-043 (2016). Bibliography. In C. Cordoni & G. Langer (Ed.), "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (pp. 791-874). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283-043 2016. Bibliography. In: Cordoni, C. and Langer, G. ed. "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 791-874. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283-043 "Bibliography" In "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthda
East Asia Beyond the History Wars Confronting the ghosts of violence
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Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: confronting the ghosts of war in East Asia
The statue and its shadow
Reparations, restitution and apology
Rethinking reconciliation
inramning and reframing memory: the textbook wars and beyond
The ghosts of the past
Notes
Part I Reconciliation as method
1 On the frontiers of history: territory and cross- border dialogue in East Asia
The troubled region
Forms of conflict, processes of reconciliation
Geographies of reconciliation: the China–Russia case
Korean borders as meeting places
Geography and dialogue
Notes
2 Historiography, media and cross-border dialogue in East Asia: Korea’s uncertain path to reconciliation
Introduction
Korea at the centre
Historiographical conflicts
Nationalists and national history in Korea Bibliography