Episode 34: Splintered Memories of the Great Depression and the New Deal
During the Great Depression the capitalist system in the United States neared the point of collapse. The stock market...
Episode 33: Memory Politics in Ukraine
Historian Georgiy Kasianov has authored, co-authored, and co-edited over twenty books on his native country of Ukraine. I had...
Episode 32: MAGA and the National Memory Divide
How can we work toward a greater degree of freedom and justice for all if our memories of the...
Episode 31: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. the 1960s civil rights movement achieved far reaching legal and political...
Episode 30: Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice
Despite the removal of scores of prominent monuments to the Confederacy the vast majority remain firmly in place. For...
Episode 29: Mexican Americans and the Memory of the US-Mexico War
With the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the US-Mexico War, Mexican Americans became the first non-white population...
Episode 28: Memorials and Public Feeling in America
Americans are living in an age of frenzied memorial making, argues University of Texas at Dallas art and cultural...
Episode 27: Remembering Emmett Till
Staring down at the distorted and barely recognizable remains of her fourteen-year-old son is Mamie Till supported by her...
