“Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?”
In the United States, a nation full of monuments to fallen soldiers, there are few…
Browsing: Memory
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This piece originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of The American Historian. For more…
Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the…
From Memory to History? The Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
If 50th anniversaries of war tend to be the last grand occasion in which the…
Consumed Nostalgia
Can you briefly describe your book Consumed Nostalgia? The uses and meanings of memory and nostalgia…
Obama in Hiroshima: A Mandate for Looking Back
On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting U.S.…
The Unrepentant Confederacy and Northern Complicity
Tera W. Hunter, Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton, is the author…
Tourism, Terrorism, and the Memory of Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina
Blain Roberts, the author of the book Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty…