History and Memory

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HISTORY AND MEMORY AFTER CIVIL WARS AND CONFLICT

Adam Domby, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
Tiya Males, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Ruth Sanz Sabido, Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Community in Rural Spain
Paloma Aguilar, Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy
Zahiri Aragüete-Toribio, Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations: From the Archive to the Grave
Annie Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
Sabine Marschall, Landscape of Memory: Commemorative Monuments, Memorials and Public Statuary in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Martin Murray, Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa
Ana Ros, The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Collective Memory and Cultural Production
Leigh Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Steve Stern, Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998

MEMORY AND MEMORIALS

Edward Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum
Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monuments in Nineteenth-Century America
Kirk Savage, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape 
Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change
Karal Marling and John Wetenhall, Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memorials, and the American Hero
James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

MEMORY AND PUBLIC HISTORY

Roy Rosensweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering 
Amy Tyson, The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines
David Glassberg, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life
Richard Handler and Eric Gable, The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg 
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Mabel Wilson, Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture

MEMORY, THE NATION, AN IDENTITY

Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth, and Popular Memory
Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
Fred Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution
Fred Corney, “‘Twentieth-Century Apocalypse’ or a ‘Grimace of Pain?’ The Vanishing Traces of October,” 
John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero 
Tammy Gordon, The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration

MEMORY AND THEORY

Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory
Elizabeth Jelín, State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

MEMORY AND WAR

Samuel Hynes, The Soldier’s Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War 
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
Alon Confino, “Telling about Germany: Narratives of Memory and Culture”

MEMORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Jerome Bruner, Acts of Meaning
Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History
Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories
Benjamin Wilkomirski, Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood