Revealing Lies in History: Difference between revisions

Department	Social Sciences and History
Teacher	John Turner
Sessions	1
GR Code	EL
Offered	Currently
Open to	Freshmen; Sophomores; Juniors; Seniors

Latest revision as of 21:53, 5 February 2025

This elective course explores the relationship between the creation of personal and collective memory and the production of history. The seminar will examine the tensions between memory and history, using some of the most acclaimed recent history books. Students will think critically about memoirs and autobiographies, oral histories and personal reminiscences, festivities and holidays of commemoration, historical memory in popular culture, and family lore and stories. What receives the privilege of being remembered and what gets deliberately forgotten constitutes the essence of what we know as history.

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