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coursename      = Revealing Lies in History
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description     = 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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department       = [[History and Social Studies]]
|department=Social Sciences and History
teacher         = [[John Turner]]
|teacher=John Turner
sessions         = 1
|sessions=1
prerequisites   = HG]], [[HOK]], and [[HUS
|prerequisites=Government, Oklahoma History, US History
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|offered=Currently
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|opento=Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors
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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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Revision as of 22:47, 14 January 2022


Department Social Sciences and History
Teacher John Turner
Sessions 1
Prerequisites Government
Oklahoma History
US History
GR Code EL
Offered Currently
Open to Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors

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.