Ergebnis für "Requiem" in Geschichte

Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States.

More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power and in a position to preserve the status quo. Blending memoir and immersive journalism, RJ Young shows how, today, Tulsa combats its racist past while remaining all too tolerant of racial injustice.

Réquiem por la Transición Democrática es una serie documental de Nexos y Genuina Media que recorre, a través de decenas de entrevistas inéditas con expresidentes, excandidatos, consejeros electorales, líderes partidistas y voces clave de la vida pública, la historia de la transición de México a la democracia… y lo que aún está en disputa. Del derrumbe paulatino del régimen hegemónico del PRI en los años sesenta al ascenso de una nueva hegemonía en el siglo XXI, esta serie revela las grietas, batallas, reformas y tensiones que definieron más de cinco décadas de vida política...

If walls could talk, the Foresters Hotel, also known as the Harp, also known as the Commercial, would have many tales to tell.Requiem for a Hotel traces, in narrative, dramatic monologue, poetry and song, the life of a hotel during the turbulent years of the twentieth century. Monaghan County Libraries under the Decade of Centenaries Programmed commissioned local award-winning Poet Ted McCarthy to research, write, direct, and produce this radio play which encapsulate a specific story set during a significant period of Irish history and aims to bring to live our history with a dramatic script,...

From Paul Ham, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History, comes the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war.

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books...

During the summer of 1969 - the summer Americans first walked on the moon - musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where "pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register." Such was the zeitgeist in the year of the moon. Yet this holy trinity of 1960s America would quickly fall apart.

In the aftermath of the Battles of Khambula and Gingindlovu, a lull fell over the war-torn Zulu Kingdom. Though British forces under Lord Chelmsford emerged victorious during both encounters, earlier defeats, casualties, and supply shortages required them to withdraw back into Natal. Now with waves of long-awaited reinforcements arriving, Chelmsford prepares to launch a second invasion of Zululand. Death and destruction have taken their toll on the Zulu people. Thousands of families mourn for their loved ones, while refugees flee from the devastation of the border regions.

Programa especial de Día de muertos producido por XHUACC Radio Delfín 88.9 FM. Participan diversos colaboradores universitarios y de la comunidad en general.