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Ed Webb

Does Russia need a memory law? | openDemocracy - 2 views

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  • Those drafting it had heeded Napoleon’s exhortation to the creators of his constitution to ‘Write it in such a way that it is brief and obscure’.
  • assical memory laws defend the memory of all who suffered from crimes committed by the government or with its support. France has laws covering denial of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire or the fact that the slave trade was a crime against humanity. The memory law proposed in Russia is fundamentally different. It intends, above all, to defend its memory of itself. More precisely, it intends to defend its memory of that régime which many consider criminal. After all, accusations of unleashing war and installing régimes of occupation are accusations levelled at Stalin and Stalinism.
David Korfhage

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives - YouTube - 2 views

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    "Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. "
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

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  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
spoutnik ogik

The Holocaust by bullets - Shoah Memorial - Paris - 10 views

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    Between 1941 and 1944, almost one and a half million Ukrainian Jews were assassinated when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The immense majority was killed by Einsatzgruppen firing squads (mobile execution units in the East), Waffen SS units, the German police and local collaborators. Only a small minority was assassinated after having been deported to extermination camps. Since 2004, Father Patrick Desbois and the Yahad-In Unum research team regularly travel across the regions of Ukraine, intent on identifying and assessing every site in eastern and western Ukraine in which Jews were exterminated by mobile Nazi units during World War II.The exhibition at the Shoah Memorial, from the 20th of June, 2007 to the 6th of January, 2008, presents their ongoing research. By reconstituting the assassins' procedural methods, it provides one with a better understanding of how the genocide of Eastern European Jews was actually put into practice. It has finally become possible to preserve and respect the victims' burial places
Simon Miles

Memories of the Great Depression (1930s) - 10 views

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    Memories of the Great Depression, submitted by Australians to the Australian government's website for the over 50s. There are 12 memories - they're good to present different perspectives to students.
Carrie Kotcho

September 11: Teaching Contemporary History - Free Online Conference for Teachers - 8 views

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  • Carrie Kotcho on 18 Jul 11
     
    The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference, September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, for K-12 teachers. Designed to provide educators with resources and strategies for discussing the September 11 attacks at the 10th anniversary, the conference will include roundtable discussions with content experts and six workshop sessions. These sessions and the conference website highlight resources available at each organization, provide background information on September 11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.
Mr Maher

Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4? How Memory Plays Tricks with Hist... - 1 views

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  • What are we to think of history? when in less than 40 years, such diversities appear in the memories of living persons, who were witnesses?”[2]
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      Primary documents are simply not more trustworthy that secondary sources
  • Mr Maher on 16 Oct 17
     
    Teachers can use the information in this article to show students that primary sources can be just as slippery as secondary sources. For those who want to understand what the AMA's Tuning Project means by the "provisional nature of knowledge" - this is it.
Mark Gleeson

3 Awesome Historical Google Maps Mashups - 15 views

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    Have you ever wondered how your favorite place used to look like 50 or 100 years ago? Would you like to refresh your childhood memories and find out what your native town looked like when you were a kid. If "yes" is the answer to either of the questions, you'll find the three projects shared in this post quite exciting. They have a few things in common: they all support Google Maps for you to easily find the place you are interested in. They all have Google Earth integrated for you to get the location 3D view and they allow users to upload old photographs of any geographical locations.
David Hilton

Australian War Memorial - Collection Databases - 0 views

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    The online collection from the Australian War Memorial.
David Hilton

American Memory from the Library of Congress - List All Collections - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 28 Jun 09
     
    This is an enormous, diverse collection of images and audio files based around US history. It's a very eclectic collection so tagging was difficult. If you're doing anything on American culture this would probably be helpful.
David Hilton

American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 07 Sep 09
     
    This is the main page of the American Memory pages. Most of the sub-pages have been added to the group.
David Hilton

American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 0 views

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    A large collection of documents, organised around topics, maintained by the Library of Congress.
David Hilton

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar - (American Memor... - 7 views

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  • David Hilton on 01 Oct 09
     
    The images are organised around themes and can be viewed in very high resolution. Very interesting to see too that even 65 years ago Japanese people always had immaculate hair all the time. Amazing.
Rob Jacklin

American Centuries: History and Art from New England - 8 views

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    "Memorial Hall Museum Online American Centuries ...view from New England Explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts."
Annabel Astbury

Mungo memories | Memoir | Edition 19: Re-imagining Australia | all-pages | Griffith REVIEW - 2 views

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    Nice reflection on the 'uncovering' o fAncient Australia
anonymous

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme - 3 views

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    Educational Materials Please do not hesitate to request information material such as: - Study Guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" (available in English, French and Spanish) - Women and the Holocaust educational DVD and study guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese (subtitles)) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume I (available in all UN official languages) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume II (available in English) - Footprints for Hope educational video DVD (available in all UN official languages (subtitles)) - Posters (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) - Commemorative DVD (highlighting the first universal observance of the International Day of Commemoration on memory of the victims of the holocaust
Bob Maloy

What Are Your Childhood Memories Of Big News Events? : NPR - 1 views

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  • Bob Maloy on 11 Feb 19
     
    Think back to a time when you were growing up and something big was going on in the world. What did you hear about it? What misconceptions did you have? We want to hear your story.
venky0235

https://www.globalcareercounsellor.com/blog/career-counselling-in-india/ - 0 views

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    Let's take a walk down the memory lane. Remember the first time you learned to ride a bicycle? Or the first time you cooked something by yourself? Well, it obviously wasn't easy, especially when there was nobody to guide you. Now, imagine if there was someone who had guided you or told you how do cook or ride a bicycle? It'd be much easier, right? Similarly, while growing up students go through so much confusion when it comes to which career path to choose. Not only do they have troubles with their careers and streams but also go through an emotional and physical rollercoaster ride. There are different opinions that every individual has, hence each person is unique with their own set of interests, capabilities, pros, and cons. Money is not what defines a successful man, it is also about one's skills and talent, ability and passion. This is where career counselling comes into the picture.
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