Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as p
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Middlesex
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Watercress
Uses of Heritage
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Elizabeth Street
Decoded

Hugo Hamilton
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. ...more
Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe

Shafter Bailey
you calm down and listen carefully to these words.” He pressed the play button on his recorder and held it to the sending end of the telephone.
Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

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