Episode 43: Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning & Accountability
Sociocultural trauma experienced by nations isn’t just the result of unimaginable crimes and horrors. It is the repeated betrayals that make it impossible to mourn, to find meaning in...
Episode 42: The Perils of Memory
The duty to remember has become a moral imperative in today’s memory culture. But reporter and political analyst David Rieff argues that this belief is often misinformed and misplaced. ...
Episode 41: Remembering the Lost Counties of Ulster
Partition cast a shadow over the island of Ireland that stretched across the 20th century. Less well known, however, is the fallout caused by the division of the Protestant...
Episode 40: The Great Patriotic War and Family Memory in Putin’s Russia
The Great Patriotic War, shorthand for the war against Nazi Germany, has become the focal point of Russian nationalism under Vladimir Putin. Memories of the war bolster the legitimacy...
Episode 39: Remembering Europe’s Dictators
From Spain to the Baltic States Europe is littered with sites connected to the personal lives of former dictators. Birthplaces, childhood homes, summer and winter residences, mausoleums and tombs...
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 in the United States. If much needed gun reform never...
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 all elements of American exceptionalism. These are the ways Americans...
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 Neshoba County Coliseum before a crowd of a thousand people. ...
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 become a lifeline connecting a painful past to the promise...
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 plunged to its lowest point in the century, the banking...
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 the opportunity to speak with him in February 2024 about...
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 past are fundamentally different? How can we pursue the general...
