Episode 08: Memories of Civil War in El Salvador
Over a decade of civil war tore apart the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador. Throughout the 1980s...
Episode 07: Remembering Stalin’s Victims Part 2
Soviet leaders struggled to confront the memory of the repressions on two occasions. First, in the period immediately following...
Episode 06: Remembering Stalin’s Victims Part 1
Soviet leaders struggled to confront the memory of the repressions on two occasions. First, in the period immediately following...
Episode 05: Rehabilitating the Memory of Stalin in Putin’s Russia
The militarism we see in Russia today has much to do with the rehabilitation of the memory of Stalin. ...
Episode 04: The Great Exodus from China: Memory and Identity in Taiwan
With the Communist victory in China in 1949 nearly one million civil war refugees flooded into Taiwan—the largest out...
Episode 03: Remembering the Slave Trade in Liverpool
Liverpool was the world’s leading slave trading port in the eighteenth century. How has the memory of the slave...
Episode 02: Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Memory of the Asia-Pacific War
Visits by high level Japanese dignitaries to Yasukuni Shrine have provoked outrage among Japan’s neighbors and unease among its...
Episode 01: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
How did Germany go from being an international pariah at the end of World War II to a leader...