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This post was originally published on The Conversation. By Thomas D. Beamish, author of After Tragedy Strikes: Why Claims of Trauma and Loss Promote Public Outrage and Encourage Political Polarization Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today. Every year, horrific crises induce trem...

The following post is reprinted with permission from History@Work, the peer-edited, multi-interest blog of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), UC Press’s society partner in publishing the journal The Public Historian. The original post can be found here. Editor’s Note: This ...