There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.
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Makeshift memorials are public expressions of private mourning in response to trauma and tragedy.
Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
A memorial to Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. has received stinging criticisms, but time will tell whether ‘The Embrace’ will endure as a cherished work of public art.
There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
Knott’s Berry Farm and others romanticize the state’s past and influence visitors’ sense of history. But their ideology reflects mid-20th-century political conservatism more than settlers’ reality.
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Ph.D. Candidate in History, UMass Amherst
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