Midday’s pop culture commentator Sheri Parks reflects on how the popular images of war – from the Civil War to World War II, Vietnam and the war in Iraq -- influence our emotional responses or indifference to war. How images of war in photo and film burnish modern memory. Plus, Robert Keith Chester, a teacher in American studies at the University of Maryland, looks at wars as crucibles for societal change perceived and real.
Midday’s pop culture commentator Sheri Parks reflects on how the popular images of war – from the Civil War to World War II, Vietnam and the war in Iraq -- influence our emotional responses or indifference to war. How images of war in photo and film burnish modern memory. Plus, Robert Keith Chester, a teacher in American studies at the University of Maryland, looks at wars as crucibles for societal change perceived and real.
