Latest posts tagged with #HistoricalMemory on Bluesky
A vitally important piece on the importance of collective memory in an era marked by historical erasure.
Using this piece in my Peace & Conflict Communication course this week.
#Education #SocialJustice #HistoricalMemory
Georgia may soon honor victims of communism with a dedicated day and required classroom instruction, but experts warn that meaningful education is key to its success.
Learn more here
#GA #CitizenPortal #CivicEducation #HistoricalMemory #GeorgiaVictimsOfCommunism #CurriculumDevelopment
Decisions made from the Oval Office have shaped systems of inequality, exclusion, and violence that continue to impact communities today.
#UCLA #LCHP #history #policy #OnThisDayInHistory #PresidentsDay #HistoricalMemory #PowerAndAccountability #PresidentialHistory
Страсбурзька різанина: погром на тлі страху і забобонів.
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#СтрасбурзькаРізанина #ЧорнаСмерть #АнтиєврейськіПогроми #СередньовічнаІсторія #ІсторичнаПамять
#StrasbourgMassacre #BlackDeath #JewishPersecution #MedievalHistory #HistoricalMemory
New York City Council has taken a stand, urging Congress to honor the legacy of the Stonewall National Monument and restore its pride flag!
Learn more here
#NY #CitizenPortal #HistoricalMemory #FederalStewardship #LGBTQRights #NewYorkLGBTQ
Colonial-era memorials are not symbols of empire alone. They tell stories of local lives shaped by global wars. Ignoring them means silencing history.
#WW1 #ColonialLegacy #HistoricalMemory
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El 2 De Febrero No Se Olvida
February 2, 1848
178 Years of Yankee Colonial Subjugation
#HistoricalMemory
#PoliticalEducation
#MexicoIsAnIndigenousNation
#OursIsAnIndigenousStruggle
#LiberacionExigeOrganizacion
#UnionDelBarrio
#AcademicResearch #Antisemitism #Balkans #Canonization #ChurchHistory #EasternEurope #ElieWieselInstitute #FaithAndPolitics #Fascism #HistoricalMemory #Historiography #HolocaustStudies #IonutBiliuta #IronGuard #MemoryPolitics #OrthodoxChurch #Orthodoxy #PublicOrthodoxy #ReligionAndPolitics (5/6)
The Lost Cause wasn't memory or tradition. It was an organized campaign to rewrite why the Confederacy existed and why Reconstruction ended. #LostCause #CivilWarHistory #Reconstruction #HistoricalMemory #ConfederateMonuments
Babi Yar shows how atrocity begins: classification, obedience, silence. Nearly 34,000 people were erased in two days. This is why memory matters. Silence is not neutral.
#NeverAgain #HistoricalMemory
Reconstruction is called a failure because admitting it was dismantled would force an uncomfortable truth. Democracy in the U.S. expanded once before and was rolled back on purpose. #Reconstruction #BlackHistory #LostCauseMyth #AmericanHistory #Democracy #CivilRights #HistoricalMemory
This isn’t the first time the administration has used language and imagery reminiscent of white nationalist and Nazi-linked propaganda.
#DepartmentOfLabor #NaziSlogan #USPolitics #Controversy #HistoricalMemory #SocialMediaBacklash #NewsAlert #CurrentEvents
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Who decides what counts as history?
I revisited E.H. Carr while finishing a historical novel and found his ideas disturbingly relevant to our present moment.
#history #writing #criticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalMemory #politics #ideas
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Mount Rushmore isn’t just carved in stone — it’s carved in myth. This morning we’re reckoning with what we’ve chosen to remember… and what we’ve ignored.
#MountRushmore #PublicHistory #AmericanMyth #HistoricalMemory #USHistory
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🗣️ Comments welcome — this one’s meant for discussion.
#FilmHistory #HistoricalMemory #PearlHarbor #ReelVsReal
The civil rights movement is remembered as moral victory, but that story is mythology. When history is flattened into triumph, it loses its power to explain why the systems still behave the same. #CivilRights #HistoricalMemory
A House in Dresden: War poem (and audio)
A grand house went. The street fell silent. #poetry #spokenword #historicalmemory #warpoem #minimalistverse #elegiac #sombercadence #artandpoetry #creativewriting #instapoetry
The 1947 partition wasn’t just a moment—it set in motion refugee crises, ethnic frictions, and identity struggles that still shape Pakistan today. History’s ruptures continue to echo.
#Partition1947 #HistoricalMemory #IdentityPolitics
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Review alert! ✍️ ‘Confronting the Irish Past' by Séamus Murphy was reviewed in ‘CHOICE.' Get your copy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/48z7z442 #CHOICE #AnthemPress #bookreview @loyolachicago.bsky.social #ConfrontingHistory #HistoricalMemory #grabyourcopy
#memoriahistorica
#nazis
#sevilla
#republica
#historia
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#españa
#historicalmemory
#Seville
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Apparently Franco is “cool” again. Yes… really.
In my new column I dig into Spain’s strangest revival trend.
🇪🇸 / 🇬🇧 ➜ Links below 👇
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#OpinionColumn #SpanishHistory #HistoricalMemory #memoriahistorica #conFrancosevivamejor
Also found this Reacting to the Past game to be a pretty amazing game to run: reactingconsortium.org/games/argent... #reacting #latinamericanhistory #historicalmemory
The #HistoricalMemory movement is also very strong in Catalunya, 87 years after the end of la Guerra Civil, w/major effort to match DNA from mass graves with ancestors (like me). Just returned from a memorial ceremony where an uncle's name - with many others - was read aloud and added to plaques.
This is an excellent article by @danhancox.bsky.social on the @casadelamemoria.bsky.social and the legacies of francoist terror:
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#HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistoria
Long erased from textbooks, this event remains crucial to understanding systemic racism and democracy today.
#WilmingtonMassacre #1898Coup #RacialTerrorism #USHistory #SystemicRacism #DemocracyUndermined #TruthInHistory #BlackHistory #HistoricalMemory
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨My new article, ”Defeat into Victory: Remediating the 1879 Battle of Canchas Blancas in Bolivia, 2015–2018”, is now published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. #WarMemory #HistoricalMemory
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“History didn’t start on Oct 7.” That’s not evasive; it’s archival. Occupation, blockade, serial dispossession preceded it by decades. Ireland recognized Palestine; a Connolly presidency makes that stance audible.
#HistoricalMemory #Palestine
Lovely words are cheap. Bush, Payne, Locke, Franklin, Winthrop—each sold virtue while the machinery did otherwise. Judge nations by outcomes, not oratory. #RhetoricVsReality #HistoricalMemory
18/10/25: French massacre of WWII African riflemen ‘premeditated’, covered up. 👉 [pierremertens.be/en/current/](pierremerte...
#CoversProject #PierreMertens #DailyDrawing #ArtAsWitness #PoliticalArt #HistoricalMemory #ColonialViolence #ArtistsForDemocracy #CurrentEventsArt
