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International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in the Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures of international history, as well as to reveal their symbolic significance.
Dmitrii V. Mankevich, Maxim E. Megem
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Concepts of «otherness» in the historical policy of modern Indonesian Islam [PDF]
The article analyzes the features of development and the main vectors of transformation of the historical Indonesian memory within the framework of the public historical and educational organization “Jejak Islam Untuk Bangsa” as one of the segments of ...
Kyrchanoff M.V.
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Memory Policy in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the XXI Century
This article features the contemporary politicy of memory in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as well as the role of historical politics in the development of national memory and identity.
M. V. Kirchanov
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Michelle Fishburne\'s Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is an edited collection of interviews recorded in-person across the US between September ...
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In this three-part poem, Natasha Trethewey revisits the Gulf Coast of her father, “a stranger passing through to somewhere else.”
Natasha Trethewey
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Poet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Theories of Time and Space," April 9, 2005, around Gulfport, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006. Trethewey's
Natasha Trethewey
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An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
The four poems presented here highlight Rodney Jones's relationship to his hometown of Falkville, Alabama. For Jones, place-bound memories of youthful pleasures frame meditations on mortality and mystery.
Rodney Jones
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In this blog post, Mark Auslander revisits the reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford lynching. In 2015, the reenactment coincided with a pro-Confederate flag rally, and the two events overlapped in several places.
Mark Auslander
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Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
In this illustrated lecture, Kirk Savage addresses how monuments "bearing the impress of white supremacy" participate in historical erasure. What happens when societies decide that memorialized landscapes and objects are outmoded or offensive?
Kirk Savage
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The Scarred Stone: The Strom Thurmond Monument
Joseph Crespino analyzes the addition of Strom Thurmond's African American daughter's name to his South Carolina State House statue.
Joseph Crespino
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