historical memory 
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SOURCE: Journal of the History of Ideas
10/7/2020
With a Touch of Wisdom: Human Rights, Memory, and Forgetting
by Antoon de Baets
A historian concerned with memory, censorship and human rights considers whether there is an affirmative duty for historians to promote the memory of crimes and atrocities.
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2/7/2021
To Save Democracy, We Need Historical Memory to be "Hot"
by Shannon Bontrager
Historical memory can run hot or cold; hot memory, when we make ourselves vulnerable to the pain of the past, is a force that will ensure America doesn't just move on from the needless death of the COVID pandemic or the violence of the Capitol insurrection without committing to justice and accountability.
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SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier
12/20/2020
Review: New Book Seeks To Differentiate Between Confederate History And Historical Memory
"Adam Domby’s book provides a helpful guide through White Southern memory, a place where the Civil War never really ended."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/2/2020
We Are Still Living the Legacy of World War II
by Tom Hanks
The actor Tom Hanks reflects on the false narrative of closure of World War II. The forces unleashed by war and the struggle to reshape the world resonate today.
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8/16/2020
Who Shaped the Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
by William Johnston
Most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects how American leaders in 1945 wanted the atomic bombings remembered more than their real history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/13/2020
How History Turns Riots Into Tea Parties
by Stacy Schiff
For years Boston hesitated to erect a monument to the rabble-rousers of 1770. We do not care for the revolutionary spirit to survive the revolution. The revolution, however, goes nowhere without it.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/6/2020
How to Confront a Racist National History
by Isaac Chotiner
"But we have to acknowledge that we’re not upholding history, we’re upholding values, and those are not the values that we want in the twenty-first century."
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SOURCE: USA Today
7/6/2020
As Divisions Threaten America, The Pressure To Cancel Presidents Is Dangerous
Any hint of admiration for Lee means automatic cancellation these days but in the mid-20th century, it was ordinary and accepted.
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7/3/2020
While Monuments are Being Removed, a Historian Asks Questions
by Andrew Joseph Pegoda
People have a right to walk around their neighborhood park without being terrorized by iconography devoted to people who denied their ancestors human rights.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/30/2020
The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means
by Richard Kreitner
For most of U.S. history, patriotism and white supremacy, the values supposedly embodied by the two flags, have hardly been at odds. Rather, they have been mutually constitutive and disturbingly aligned.
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SOURCE: KCRW
6/24/2020
Who Owns History? New Book Reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s Pioneer Past
The local history project East of East seeks to amplify the histories of people of color in El Monte, CA.
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SOURCE: San Jose Mercury-News
6/17/2020
2 Berkeley Elementary Schools, Washington and Jefferson, to be Renamed in Response to Black Lives Matter Push
Two San Francisco Bay Area schools named for founding fathers who were slaveholders will get new names following a push by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a newspaper report.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
6/18/2020
Racist Statues Belong in Museums, not Storage, to Force Us to Face History
by Jonathan Zimmerman
The City of Philadelphia shouldn't miss an opportunity to truly make the recently-removed statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo an educational tool. Hiding it in storage won't help Philadelphians learn or heal.
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SOURCE: 4WWL New Orleans
6/11/2020
New Orleans To Create Street Renaming Commission, Change Names 'Honoring White Supremacy'
The group will be tasked with identifying places to be renamed and create a plan to educate the public on the changes made.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/10/2020
'Gone With the Wind' Reignites Debate as Hollywood Wrestles with its History
Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/6/2020
Coronavirus Depletes the Keepers of Europe’s Memory
The pandemic has hastened the departure of witnesses to the wrenching conflicts of the last century, allowing rising political forces to recast history.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
5/26/2020
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Big Middle Finger to the Confederacy
The History Channel miniseries “Grant,” executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrates Ulysses S. Grant’s Civil War heroism and exposes the racism of the Confederacy.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
5/18/2020
"Rumors of War" Arrives in the South
Kehinde Wiley's new sculpture serves as a rejoinder to the statues of Confederate leaders along Richmond's Monument Avenue.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
5/8/2020
Russia Was Ready to Celebrate a Glorious Past. The Present Intervened.
As the coronavirus began its inexorable march across the country’s 11 time zones, it robbed the capital of lives, and also its chance to come together over a shared victory.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/4/2020
They Survived the Holocaust. Now They’re Confronting the Virus.
The generation that endured Nazi death camps is especially vulnerable to the pandemic.
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