History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2000

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2000

Pingvellir.(Iceland)
March 22, 2000... An Icelandic "Lieu de Memoire" On 17 June 1994 around 60,000 people, or a quarter of the Icelandic population, assembled at Pingvellir (pronounced Thingvedlir, Parliamentary Plains in literal translation) to commemorate the fiftieth...

Whose Nation?(post-communist Czech historiography)
March 22, 2000... Czech Dissidents and History Writing from a Post-1989 Perspective(*) If there was a time to be hopeful in Czechoslovakia, it was New Year's Day, 1990. Only a few weeks earlier Communism had collapsed more swiftly, peacefully and decidedly...

History and Memory in the Israeli Educational System.(textbook portrayal of Arab-Israeli conflict)
March 22, 2000... The Portrayal of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in History Textbooks (1948-2000) HISTORY, MEMORY AND TEXTBOOKS Forging the nation's collective memory is an integral part of the process of nation building. The powerful link between history...

Commemorating "The Deportation" in Post-Soviet Chechnya.
March 22, 2000... The Role of Memorialization and Collective Memory in the 1994-1996 and 1999-2000 Russo-Chechen Wars The collapse of Communism in Eurasia has led to many events that few analysts in the West could have predicted during the Cold War. One of...

Secular Icons.(photographs from Nazi concentration camps)
March 22, 2000... Looking at Photographs from Nazi Concentration Camps(*) Few photographs have become as well known as those taken by British and American army photographers during the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in what was then the German...