Episode 56: Jeff Olick on Memory Studies and Confronting the Past
Jeffrey Olick has long been one of the leading lights in the burgeoning field of memory studies. Professor of...
Episode 55: Race and Slavery in U.S. Museums
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, opened in 1993, is part of a new global trend in how we...
Episode 54: The Homeless Remembered: Del Seymour’s Story
The official number of homeless in the United States reached nearly 800,000 in 2024. This was an 18% increase...
Episode 53: Mr. Nobody Against Putin with Katya Haskins
The challenge of any documentary director with a mission is to make the viewer care. What makes the 2026...
Episode 52: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery
Americans don’t do ambiguity well is my main takeaway from John Garrison Mark’s, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s...
Episode 51: Holocaust Distortion in Poland
The Holocaust eradicated Poland’s Jewish community, the largest in the world outside the United States. Of the some three...
Episode 50: Remembering the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona
Spain’s Pacto del Olvido (Pact of Forgetting) was once regarded as the gold standard for how to achieve a...
Episode 49: Forgetting the Victims: The 2003 Heat Wave in Paris
In the age of climate change and global pandemics how do we remember the victims? University of Madison, Wisconsin...
