History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles

Recent articles from History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past

Corrigendum.
March 22, 2009... In the article by Tom Lawson, "Constructing a Christian History of Nazism: Anglicanism and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1945-49," which appeared in History & Memory 16, no. 1 (2004), an error occurred on p. 169 in n. 26. The correct title of Anne Deighton's book is The Impossible Peace:...

Remembering Smyrna/Izmir: shared history, shared trauma.
September 22, 2008... This article uses the oral history narrative of an elderly Smyrniote/Izmirian woman born in 1915 to interpret memories of war and violence in the context of contemporary debates on history, memory and identity in the public sphere in Turkey. In narrating the occupation and burning of Izmir...

Narrative, memory and history education in divided Cyprus: a comparison of schoolbooks on the "History of Cyprus".
September 22, 2008... Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot history schoolbooks adopted a similar model of ethnic nationalism focusing on the suffering of the Self and presenting an essentialist, unchanging view of national identity. However, the new books that recently appeared on the Turkish Cypriot side follow a...

Remembering empire/forgetting the colonies: accretions of memory and the limits of commemoration in a Lisbon neighborhood.
September 22, 2008... This essay presents a critical overview of memory sites found in the Belem neighborhood of Lisbon, which has long been a privileged space for the construction of monuments to the nation's five centuries of overseas expansion. In 1960, a replica of the 1940 Exposition of the Portuguese World's...

Memories of repression and resistance: narratives of children institutionalized by Auxilio Social in Postwar Spain.
September 22, 2008... Auxilio Social became the main welfare institution in Franco's Spain in which poor women and children, mostly belonging to the "vanquished" in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), were assisted by a new class of social workers composed of Falangists, priests and professionals. The narratives and...