Societies in fact reconstruct their pasts rather than faithfully record them...and do so with the needs of contemporary culture clearly in mind.
--Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory (1993)
1. In your own words, explain what Michael Kammen means in the above excerpt.

The fourteenth amendment how did the action resolve a longstanding conflict in post-civil war america? it defined the process for readmittance of the former confederate states into the united states of america. it ensured the right to vote to all male citizens of the united states, regardless of race, color, or prior servitude. it defined citizenship and related rights for african americans. it abolished slavery in the united states.

The map shows information about river valley civilizations. which feature of this map best the reader determine the distance between two places?

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?