History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2010

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2010

Re-remembering a segregated past: race in American memory.(Report)
March 22, 2010... In a 1989 interview, Lakecia Denson asks Ella Gibson, age 74, about her life in rural Georgia during the early 1930s. Gibson tells the freshman interviewer that as a young girl, around Lakecia's age, she worked from dawn to dusk in the cotton...

Victory in death: annihilation narratives in Russia today.(Report)
March 22, 2010... In the 2004 Russian film Extra-Service Assignment, set in June 1945, World War II is not over for a platoon of Cossacks in Czechoslovakia. They are charged with hunting down an SS war criminal, leading a group of soldiers seeking to surrender to...

Past and pathos: symbolic practices of reconciliation during the French Restoration.(Report)
March 22, 2010... It is a banal statement that the French Revolution radically changed French society. But it is much less banal to try seriously to understand what this really meant. This revolutionary epoch gave rise to the breakthrough of--at least the ideas...

"Shortly afterwards, we heard the sound of the gas van": survivor testimony and the writing of history in socialist Yugoslavia.(Report)
March 22, 2010... In December 1941, seven months into the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, the German administration in Belgrade established the Semlin Judenlager, one of the first concentration camps in Europe created specifically for the internment of Jews....

"A" for apology: slavery and the discourse of remonstrance in two american universities.(Report)
March 22, 2010... We are awash in institutional apologies, or what one scholar has referred to as "a global frenzy to balance our moral ledgers." (1) This image describes a contemporary glut of apologies offered by people and institutions, a profusion so great...