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Episode 38: Memory, Storytelling and the National Rifle Association

The National Rifle Association, known simply as the NRA, is commonly regarded as one of the most powerful lobbies...

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Episode 37: American Memory in the Post-9/11 Era

The greatest democracy in history, a beacon of freedom, a selfless force of good in the world, these are...

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Episode 36: Transformative Memory and the Mississippi Burning Murders

In June 2004 a thirty-member multiracial task force known as the Philadelphia Coalition stood on the stage of the...

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Episode 35: Death Strip to Green Belt: Memory and Conservation in Germany

How can a wounded land become a source of healing, rejuvenation and renewal?  How can a former death strip...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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