A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories The study of public memory has grown rapidly across nu

What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies

Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historia

Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And alth

Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students workin