Week 1 (back to top)

Jan. 8: Introductory discussion: Core Concepts, Writing a Literature Review

• Historical relativism
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life" (1874), esp. I-III and first paragraph of IV. full text online
  • Carl Becker, "Everyman his own Historian," in: AHR 37:2(Jan. 1932), 221-236 16 page pdf
    • on the reception of Becker's speech see: Milton Klein's essay "Carl Becker as Historiographer," The History Teacher 19:1(Nov. 1985), pp. 101-109. 9-page pdf
  • David Lowenthal, "Fabricating Heritage," in: History & Memory 10:1(Spring 1998). See also his monographs, below.
  • Howard Zinn, The Politics of History (Beacon 1970, Illinois 1990), intorductory essay on presentism (google books; $5 & searchable on amazon; 1974 review Jnl Interdisc Hist (jstor);
    • Howard Schonberger, "Purposes and Ends in History: Presentism and the New Left (in Historiography)," in: The History Teacher 7:3(May, 1974), 448-458 (pdf)
  • Robert Kelley, "Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects," in: the Public Historian 1:1(Fall 1978), 16-28. reprinted in Leffler/Brent, Public History Readings (1992), 111-120 (esp. 111-116).(searchable 6 page pdf)
  • Marcuse's definition of "Reception History"

Week 2 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Jan. 15 (yes, usual time on MLK day): Individual Memory and Collective Memory (back to top)

• *Freud, Sigmund, "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through" (1914), in: v. 12 of Standard Edition (1950), 145-157. 6 page searchable pdf. (2004 discussion in History Workshop Journal [project muse])
  • See also Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Ed. James Strachey. (London: Hogarth Press, 1953-74) vol. 14, 244-5
  • Frederick Crews, Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (Granta Books, 1997)
  • Bergson, Henri (1859-1941), Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire, 1896) (Dover, 2004), 352 pages. ($10 at amazon; TOC google books; 1911 1st ed.)
• Halbwachs, Maurice (1877-1945)[pdf will be posted late afternoon of Tue, 1/9/07]
  • *The Collective Memory (posthumous/prior to 1940; New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 186 pages; UCSB: HM267 .H313. Therein: "Individual Memory and Collective Memory," 22-49, and "Historical Memory and Collective Memory," 50-87. ($92 at amazon, but you can see who cites it)
  • The Social Frameworks of Memory (Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire, 1925)
  • La topographie légendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte; étude de mémoire collectiv ,(1941); The Legendary Topography of the Gospels in the Holy Land, in On Collective Memory, edited, translated, and with introduction by Coser, Lewis, (University of Chicago, 1992), "Conclusion" pp. 193-235. ($18 and searchable at amazon); 1941 French: UCSB: DS104.3 .H3
  • ^Lewis Coser (ed.), On Collective Memory (1992): contains a former student's introduction, then translated preface, short chap. 1-4 excerpts, and chaps. 5, 6, 7 and conclusion of Social Frameworks, also conclusion of the Legendary Topography. [Joe]
• (*)Assmann, Jan, "Collective Memory and Cultural Identity," in New German Critique 65(1995), 125-133. (jstor, 9 page pdf)
  • Gombrich, Ernst, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970) 1997 ed. $120 at amazon
• ^Amos Funkenstein, "Collective Memory and Historical Consciousness," in History and Memory 1(Spr/Sum 1989), 5-26. (12 page searchable pdf)[Tara and Mira]
• ^Connerton, Paul, "Commemorative Ceremonies," ch. 2 of How Societies Remember (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 41-71. ($23 and searchable on amazon; google books)[Abraham]
• ^Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting (Univ. Chicago, 2004), 624 pages ($25 & searchable on amazon) w/ discussion of Halbwachs and Nora (going back to Plato)[Nanette, or Kerwin Klein]
• ^Kerwin Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse," in: Representations 70(Winter 2000), 127-150. (jstor, 24 page pdf)[N., if not Ricoeur]
• ^Matsuda, Matt, The Memory of the Modern (Oxford UP, 2001), 264 pages ($19 & searchable at amazon) [Meagan and Stacey, otherwise Hutton]
• ^Hutton, Patrick, "The Art of Memory Reconceived: From Rhetoric to Psychoanalysis," in: Journal of the History of Ideas 48:3(July-Sept 1987), 371-393. (pdf) [M & S, if not Matsuda]
  • Patrick Hutton, review of History and Memory by Jacques Le Goff (first published 1977), and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, in: History and Theory 33:1(Feb., 1994), pp. 95-107. (jstor, pdf)
  • Patrick Hutton, History as an Art of Memory (review by Gillis in JHM jstor; )
• AHR Forum, 102( 1997): Introduction 1 p. pdf
  • ^Susan Crane, Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory, p. 1372-1385 14 page pdf (good discussion of Halbwachs) [Paul & Julia]
  • Alon Confino, Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method, in: AHR 102(1997), 1386-1403 18 page pdf
• Gillis, John, "Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship," in J. Gillis, ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp.2-26. (reviews: Wm Johnston in TPH jstor; Contemp Soc jstor; Geog-jstor)
• Noa Gedi and Yigal Elam, "Collective Memory--What Is It?" in History and Memory 8:1(1996), 30-50. (full text) Critique of Halbwachs, but w/o posthumous Coll. Mem.
• Mieke Bal et al (ed.), Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Dartmouth 1998), 268 pages ($25 and searchable on amazon). 15 litcrit essays. Nanette recommends highly.
• Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche, eds. The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 265 pp. 1998 conference. ($33 & searchable at amazon; H-Net review; ). UCSB: DD61 .W67 2002
• David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge UP, 1985), 516 pages ($33 & searchable on amazon; reviews by T.Ranger jstor, D.Glassberg jstor, geog jstor, 16th c jstor, EHR jstor, isis jstor,
  • Richard Lunt, "Teaching the Survey Course in European History after Reading The Past Is a Foreign Country," The History Teacher 26:2 (Feb. 1993), pp. 191-201. jstor
  • D. Lowenthal, Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (New York, 1996).($20 at amazon)
  • D. Lowenthal, Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (Cambridge UP, 1998), 356 pages ($15 on amazon; reviews by K.Till jstor, M.Matsuda jstor, M.Frisch AHR jstor,)
• Gerdien Jonker, The Topography of Remembrance: The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia (Leiden/New York: Brill, 1995)[translated by Helen Richardson]. pp. 4-34 discuss and define "memory" (google books--those pages not available; $95 on amazon). UCSB doesn't own [ill 12/30/06]
• Jeffrey Olick and Joyce Robbins, "Social Memory Studies: From 'Collective Memory' to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices," in: Annual Review of Sociology 24(1998), 105-140 (jstor; 36 page pdf)
• Eviatar Zerubavel, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (Univ. of Chicago, 2003), (google books)UCSB: BD638.Z48 2003
• Jeffrey Olick, States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke, 2003), 354 pages (google books)
• Niethammer, Lutz, Kollektive Identität: Heimliche Quellen einer unheimlichen Konjunktur (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2000), 680pp. Not held by UC; H-Soz-u-Kult Rezension. starts with a detailed history of the concept, including Halbwachs
• Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture (2 vols., London, 1994,1998) ($44 at amazon; ) UCSB: DA1 .S35 1994 (focus on Britain)

Week 3 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Jan. 22: Cognition and Memory (Psychological Approaches) (back to top)

• *J.W. Pennebaker, D. Paez & B. Rimé (eds.), Collective Memory of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997); therein: Pennebaker, J.W. & Banasik, B., "On the Creation and Maintenance of Collective Memories: History as Social Psychology" (pdf; book $45 at amazon). An examination how collective memories associated with the JFK assassination, the Loma Prieta earthquake, Persian Gulf War, and other upheavals are made through social processes.
• Schacter, Daniel, Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (Basic, 1996), 398 pages ($7 and searchable on amazon)
• David Middleton and Derek Edwards (eds.), Collective Remembering (London: Sage, 1990). psychological approach
• Thomas Butler (ed.), Memory: History, Culture and the Mind (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)
• Endel Tulving, Fergus I. M. Craik, The Oxford Handbook of Memory (Oxford UP, 2000), 700 pages (google books)
• Wegner, D.W., "Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind," in: B. Mullen and G.R. Goethals (eds.), Theories of Group Behavior (New York: Springer, 1988), 185-208. Not at UCSB: HM131 .T446 1987 [ill 1/12/07]
• Yates, Frances, The Art of Memory (1966; Univ. Chicago, 2001), 464 pages ($18 & TOC at amazon; )
• Weldon, Mary & Krystal Bellinger,"Collective Memory: Collaborative and Individual Processes in Remembering," in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23(Sept. 1997), 1160-1175. Reports on two experiments. 16 page pdf

Week 4 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Jan. 29: "Sites" (lieux) of Memory: Theory

• *Nora, Pierre, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire," Representations 26 (Spring, 1989), 7-25 (jstor, pdf)=Intro to v. 1 of French edition
  • first read Nora's note (jstor, pdf)
  • ^3 volume work (1984, 88, 92) translated as: Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past; translated by Arthur Goldhammer, edited and with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-98). v. 1: Conflicts and Divisions; v. 2. Traditions; v. 3. Symbols
    UCSB: DC33 L6513 1996 (Aug. 1998 H-France review of v2 by Jay Winter; JAH review by John Bodnar; )
  • v. 3(1998 trans): final essay by Pierre Nora, "The Era of Commemoration," pp. 608-637,702-707
  • ^Nancy Wood, Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe (New York: Berg, 1999), 15-37. ($10 at amazon; ) UCSB: BF371.W66 1999.
  • v. 1&2 retranslated as: Rethinking France; translated by Mary Trouille, translation directed by David P. Jordan (University of Chicago Press, 2001-)
• ^Review essay "Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory," by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, AHR 106:3 (June 2001), 38 paragraphs.
• ^Nancy Wood, "Memory's Remains: Les Lieux de Memoire," in History and Memory 6:1(1994), 123-150. Also in her Vectors of Memory, pp. 15-38.
• Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory (Transaction, 1994)($40 at amazon) UCSB: BF378.S65 I78 1994. with annotated bibliography
• James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (Blackwell, 1992)(no info on amazon; ) UCSB: BF378.S65 F46 1992. Chapter 1, "Remembering," offers a middle-ages to present overview. (History of memory)
• Barry Schwartz, " The Social Context of Commemoration: A Study in Collective Memory," Social Forces 61:2(Dec. 1982), pp. 374-402 (jstor, pdf)
  • Bernard Lewis, History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented (Princeton, 1975

Week 5 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Feb. 5: "Sites" of Memory: Examples

• *James V. Wertsch, Voices of Collective Remembering (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 202 p. UCSB: BF378.S65 W47 2002 (reviews: jstor Slavic Review; jstor: Slavic+EEur)($17/25 & searchable on amazon) (google books).
  • top-notch general and terminological discussion from semiotics perspective, but incorporating other disciplines (introduces own jargon) , application to Soviet case, also reception history
• Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Austin: Univ. Texas, 1997, revised and updated 2003), 398 pages ($13 at amazon)
• Gregory Ashworth and Rudi Hartmann (eds.), Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities for Tourism (NY: Cognizant, 2005), 266 pages ($45 on amazon) UCDavis only: G156.5.H47 H67 2005
• Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Knauer (eds.), Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space (Duke, 2004), 326 pages ($19 on amazon)[reviews: AJS (March 2006),1574 pdf; AHR (June 2005), 916; Urban Studies (Oct 2006),2115]
• John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 1992), 318 pages ($22 & searchable on amazon; reviews: Barry Schwartz in Contemp.Soc. jstor; )
• Etienne François and Hagen Schulze, Deutsche Erinnerungsorte 3 vols. (Munich: Beck, 2002-2004) (amazon.de). Einleitung: vol. 1, 9-24
• Hogan, Michael (ed.), Hiroshima in History and Memory (Cambridge UP, 1996), 290 pages ($11 & searchable at amazon). also on Enola Gay exhibit
• Francesca Cappelletto (ed.), Memory and World War II: An Ethnographic Approach (Berg, 2005), 206 pages ($26 at amazon; ) UCSB: D744.55.M46 2005 . Narrative reconstructions at the community level
• Art/Memorials
  • Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2003)($20 & searchable at amazon; Biography review, Shofar, H-Net)
  • James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (Yale, 1994)($18 & searchable at amazon; )
  • James E. Young (ed.), Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory (Te Nues, 1994), 192 pages ($40 at amazon)
  • Wiedmer, Caroline, The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France (Cornell, 1999), 244 pages ($19 and searchable on amazon)
  • Marcuse, Harold, "Holocaust Commemoration: A Strategy for West Germany," in: Dimensions 3:2(1987). unabridged version
• World Wars (and others)
  • George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars (Oxford, 1990), 264 pages (google books; )
  • Keith Wilson (ed.), Forging the Collective Memory: Government and International Historians through two World Wars (Berghahn, 19960, 300 pages (google books; ) . Survey of participants in Great War; includes: "Senator Owen, the Schuldreferat, and the Debate over War Guilt in the 1920s"
  • Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, 2000), 384 pages (google books; )
  • Francesca Cappelletto, Memory And World War II: An Ethnographic Approach (Berg, 2005), 252 pages (google books; )
  • Michael Roper, Graham Dawson, T. G. Ashplant (eds.), Politics of War, Memory and Commemoration (Routledge, 2001) (google books; )
• Cities/Architecture
  • Gavriel Rosenfeld, Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (UC Press, 2000), 456 pages ($27 & searchable at amazon)
  • Karen Till, The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place (Minnesota, 2005), 296 pages ($25 at amazon)
  • Jennifer Jordan, Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin And Beyond (Cultural Memory in the Present) (Stanford, 2006), 304 pages ($25 at amazon; ) UCSB: HT169.G32 B3876 2006.
  • Brian Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Univ. Chicago, 1997), 282 pages ($15 & searchable at amazon)
• Holocaust Memory
  • Nancy Wood, "The Holocaust: Historical Memories and Contemporary Identities," in: Media, Culture & Society 13:3 (July 1991): pp357-380 (pdf)
  • Gavriel Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge UP, 2005), 536 pages ($18 & searchable on amazon)
  • Cole, Tim, Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler; How History is Bought, Packaged and Sold (Routledge, 2000), 240 pages ($9 & searchable on amazon)
• Events
  • Hans Mommsen, "Hitler's Reichstag Speech of 30 January 1939," in History and Memory 9:1-2(1997), 147- (proquest,)
  • Bombing of Dresden, Feb. 1945: See the literature listed in this Kent University bibliography on Legacies of WW2 (do page search, about 1/4 way down).
• Museums
  • Thomas A. Woods, "Museums and the Public: Doing History Together," in: Journal of American History 82:3(Dec. 1995), 1111-1115. pdf
  • Handler, Richard and Eric Gable, The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg (Duke, 1997), 272 pages ($16 & TOC on amazon)
  • Linenthal, Edward, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (Penguin, 1995), 336 pages ($6 & searchable at amazon)
  • Marcuse, Harold, "Experiencing the Jewish Holocaust in Los Angeles:
    The Beit Hashoah—Museum of Tolerance," in: Other Voices, 2:1 (February 2000)(online)
• Literature
  • Langer, Laurence, The Ruins of Memory
  • Young, James, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust
  • Apel, Dora, Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (Rutgers, 2002), 241 pages ($8 and searchable on amazon)
  • Art Spiegelman, Maus (1986, 1992); my Maus Resources page

Week 6 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Feb 12: Studies of National Memories

• *H. Marcuse, "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe," in: Gordon Martel (ed.), A Companion to Europe, 1900-1945 (Blackwell, 2006), 487-504. ($167 and searchable at amazon)(overview essay about 11 European countries)
• *Jedwabne
  • *Gross, Jan, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton, 2001), 260 pages ($10.65 at amazon; )
  • *Polonsky, Antony and Joanna Michlic, The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (Princeton, 2004), 489 pages ($19 at amazon)
  • ^3 articles in History & Memory, 2006 (table of contents):
    • E. Wolentarska-Ochman, "Collective Remembrance in Jedwabne" 27 page pdf
    • Response by Slabomir Kapralski, "The J. Village Green?" 16 page pdf
    • Wolentarski-Ochman's Response to Slawomir Kapralski
• Poland
  • ^Steinlauf, Michael, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Syracuse, 1997), 192 pages
  • ^Polonsky, Antony (ed.), 'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust (Routledge, 1990), 242 pages
  • ^Jonathan Huener, Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003), 326 pp. ($24 at amazon; H-Net review)
  • ^Ronit Lentin (ed.), Representing the Shoah for the Twenty-First Century (Berghahn, 2004), chap. 10: Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, "Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland in the Shoah," 179-194. ($50 at amazon)
• Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Beacon, 1995), 192 pages ($13 & TOC on amazon)
• John Gillis, review essay: "Remembering Memory: A Challenge for Public Historians in a Post-National Era," Public Historian 14:4(Fall 1992), 83-93 (jstor) (on Glassberg, Bodnar, Johnston, Kammen)
• Europe survey
  • R.N. Lebow, W. Kansteiner, & C. Fogu (eds.), The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe (Duke UP, 2006). ($24 on amazon)
• Germany
  • Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990 (UC Press, 2000), 368 pages (google books; )
    See also Koshar's Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century (UNC Press, 1998) (google books; )
  • Niven, Bill, Facing the Nazi Past (Routledge, 2001), 272 pages ($27 & searchable on amazon)
  • Reichel, Peter, Politik mit der Erinnerung: Gedächtnisorte im Streit um die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit (Munich: Hanser, 1995)(GSR rev by Kattago jstor)
• US
  • Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Philadelphia: Temple, 1996), 318 pages ($24 and TOC on amazon)
  • George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (Univ. Minnesota, 2001), 326 pages (google books; )
  • Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Austin: Univ. Texas, 1997, revised and updated 2003), 398 pages ($13 at amazon)
  • Novick, Peter, The Holocaust in American Life (Mariner, 2000), 382 pages ($6 & searchable on amazon; )
  • Hilene Flanzbaum (ed.), The Americanization of the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins, 1999), 272 pages ($9 & searchable on amazon)
  • Barbie Zelizer, Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory (Univ. Chicago, 1993), 307 pages ($12 & searchable at amazon)
  • Sturken, Marita, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (UC Press, 1997), 375 pages ($11 & searchable on amazon)
  • Glassberg, David, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (UMass, 2001), 269 pages ($25 on amazon)
  • Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present) (Stanford, 2003), 177 pages ($15 at amazon; )
  • Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia, 2004), 238 pages (google books;)
• Israel
  • Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (Owl, 2000), 608 pages ($7 & searchable on amazon)
  • Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (Univ. of Chicago, 1995)(google books; )
  • Yael Zerubavel, " The Death of Memory and the Memory of Death: Masada and the Holocaust as Historical Metaphors," Representations 45(Winter, 1994), pp. 72-100 (jstor).
  • Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel (Univ. Wisconsin, 1995) (review in Cont.Soc. jstor)
• Central Europe
  • Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present, ed. by Maria Bucur and Nancy M. Wingfield (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001),
• France
  • Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, Mass., 1991, 2006), ($15 at amazon; ).
  • Peter Carrier, Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany since 1989: The Origins and Political Function of the Vél' D' Hiv in Paris and the Holocaust Monument in Berlin (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005), 256 pp. ($25 & searchable on amazon; H-Net review)
• East Germany/post 1989 Germany/Eastern Europe
  • Jeffrey Herf, Divided Nation
  • Jürgen Danyel (ed.), Geteilte Vergangenheit
  • Siobhan Kattago, Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity (Praeger, 2001), 216 pages ($99 & searchable on amazon). good discussion of Halbwachs & Nora, 13-21. UCSB: DD256.5.K287 2001
  • Richard Esbenshade, "Remembering to Forget: Memory, History, National Identity in Postwar East-Central Europe," in: Representations 49(Winter, 1995), pp. 72-96. (jstor) Special Issue: Identifying Histories: Eastern Europe Before and After 1989
• Canada
• Ruth Sandwell (ed.), To the Past: History Education, Public Memory, and Citizenship in Canada (Univ. Toronto, 2006), 120 pages ($24 & searchable at amazon; )
• South Africa
• Annie E. Coombes, History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa (Duke, 2003), 366 pages ($15 and searchable at amazon) focus on art and museums
• Sarah Nuttall, Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (Oxford, 1998), 320 pages ($35 and searchable at amazon; )

Week 7 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

(week of Feb. 19) Wed., Feb. 21, 6pm: "Vectors" of Memory: Photography, TV, Film, Monuments/Memorials [note 1/8/07: we decided to have the core readings focus on film]

• *Anton Kaes, "History and Film: Public Memory in the Age of Electronic Dissemination," in: History and Memory 2:1(Fall 1990), 111-129.
• Film
  • Kaes, Anton, From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (Harvard, 1992), 272 pages ($7 and TOC on amazon)
  • "Forum:World War II and National Cinemas" American Historical Review 106:3 (June 2001) pp. 804-864(intro--need proxy server for links)
    • John Bodnar, Saving Private Ryan & Memory in US
    • Geoff Eley, Film and British Collective Memory
    • Denise Youngblood, Soviet Films of the Great Patriotic War
    • Jay Winter, "Film and the Matrix of Memory"
  • Lawrence Baron, Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 306p. (pub's descript; $15 at amazon; H-Net review, Film&Hist)
  • Toby Haggith (ed.), Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television Since 1933 (Wallflower, 2005). Imperial War Museum conference volume. ($25 at amazon; TOC @ USHMM,
  • Insdorf, Annette, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 1983, 1990; 3rd ed. 2003)($7 & searchable on amazon; H-Net review; 1990 preface)
  • Avisar, Ilan, Screening the Holocaust: Cinema's Images of the Unimaginable (Indiana University Press, 1988)(jstor/Film Quarterly rev.)
  • Doneson, Judith, The Holocaust in American Film (Syracuse University Press, 1987, rev. 2002), 288 pp. ($19.95; Shofar review; )
  • Mintz, Alan, Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (U.Washington, 2001), 192 pages ($9 on amazon) examines 3 films (Judgement 1961, Pawnbroker 1965, Schindler 1992)
  • Friedlander, Saul, Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution" (Harvard University Press, 1992)(
  • Wees, W, "Old Images, New Meanings: Recontextualizing Archival Footage of Nazism and the Holocaust," in Spectator: University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism, 20:1(199), 70-76
  • Walker, Janet, Trauma Cinema: Documenting incest and the Holocaust (UC Press, 2005), 273 pages, ($25 at amazon; Biography review, TOC)
  • Brent Toplin, History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996)
• Schindler's List
  • Yosefa Loshitzky (ed.), Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997)($7 & searchable at amazon; Film Quarterly review-Jstor; H-Net review)
• Television
  • Mintz, Alan, Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001), 383 pp. (TOC, $11 at amazon; JAH review, H-Net review)
    PN1992.56 .T45 2001 (google books) [intro with 6 "assumptions;" articles on Ken Burns, Israel, History Channel, Culbert on Berlin Wall: 230-243, bibliography]
  • Jeffrey Shandler, While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (OUP, 1999), 316pp. ($5 & searchable on amazon; AmJewHist review; Shofar, IFS)
  • Wulf Kansteiner, In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics After Auschwitz (Ohio Univ. Press, 2006), 438 pages (google books; ). chapt 2, pp. 11-30: "Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies"=terminological discusssion, also in: History and Theory 41:2(May, 2002), pp. 179-197. (jstor)
• Photography
  • Cornelia Brink, "Secular Icons: Looking at Photographs from Nazi Concentration Camps," in: History and Memory 15:1(Spring/Summer 2000), 135-150. UCSB: D16.8 .H6243 (muse, 16 page pdf)
  • Janina Struk, Photographing the Holocaust (I.B.Tauris, 2003), p. ($25 and searchable at amazon; pub w/TOC, Guardian article, Univ. of Houston/Victoria library review--scroll down)
  • Zelizer, B, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye (Univ. of Chicago, 1998)($17 & searchable at amazon; Shofar review, Biography review, pub w/ TOC)
  • Jay, Martin. "The Camera as Memento Mori," ch. 8 in: Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 633pp; 435-491. ($24 & searchable at amazon)
  • Liss, Andrea. Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 152p. ($12 at amazon)
  • Bohm-Duchen, Monica, "The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art," in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust by Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz (Indiana University Press, 2003), 220-34
  • Hirsch, Marianne, "Surviving images: Holocaust photographs and the work of postmemory," in Visual culture and the Holocaust by Barbie Zelizer (Athlone, 2001), 215-246
• Monuments & Memorials
  • James Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (Yale, 1994), 415 pages (google books; )
• Public History
• Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (Columbia, 2000), 320 pages ($18 and searchable on amazon)
• David Glassberg, "Public History and the Study of Memory,"in: The Public Historian 18:2(Spring 1996), pp. 7-23. (jstor)

Week 8 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Feb. 26: History Debates (& Museums) Transmission of Memory over Time: Generations

• *Karl Mannheim, "The Sociological Problem of Generations," (1927) in Paul Kecskemeti, Karl Mannheim: Essays (Routledge, 1952, 1972), 276-320. (26-page searchable pdf)
  • Jane Pilcher, "Mannheim's Sociology of Generations: An Undervalued Legacy," in: British Journal of Sociology 45:3 (Sept. 1994), pp. 481-495. 14 page pdf
  • Hans Jaeger, "Generations in History: Reflections on a Controversial Concept," in: History and Theory 24:3 (Oct. 1985), pp. 273-292. (translation of a 1977 Gesch & Gesell article). 19th origins, long discussion of Mannheim 18 page pdf
• *Harold Marcuse, "Generational Cohorts and the Shaping of Popular Attitudes towards the Holocaust," in: Remembering for the Future (London: Palgrave, 2001), vol. 3, pp. 652-663. [stand-alone version of Marcuse, Legacies of Dachau, chap. 12 (searchable at amazon)]
• Alan B. Spitzer, "The Historical Problem of Generations," in: AHR 78:5 (Dec. 1973), pp. 1353-1385. 32 page pdf
• Tamara Hareven, "The Search for Generational Memory," in: Daedalus 107:4(Fall 1978); reprinted in Leffler/Brent, Public History Readings (1992), 270-283. (searchable pdf)
• Norbert Frei, "Farewell to the Era of Contemporaries: National Socialism and Its Historical Examination en Route into History," in: History and Memory 9:1-2(1997), 59- (proquest, )
• Peter Loewenberg, "The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort," American Historical Review, 76: 5 (December 1971), 1457-1502. (jstor, pdf)
• Jacqueline Scott; Lilian Zac, "Collective Memories in Britain and the United States," in: Public Opinion Quarterly 57:3(Autumn, 1993), 315-331 17 page pdf
• Joseph Demartini, "Change Agents and Generational Relationships: A Reevaluation of Mannheim's Problem of Generations," in: Social Forces 64:1 (Sept. 1985), 1-16 pdf
• Hirsch, Marianne, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (Harvard, 1997). [after R. Lentin (ed.)(2004), 7: postmemory=2nd generation
• Philipp Gassert and Alan Steinweis (eds.), Coping With the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Berghahn, 2006), 339 pages ($60 and searchable on amazon)

Week 9 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

Mar. 5 : History Teaching (back to top)

• *Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia: Temple, 2001), 255 pages ($16 at amazon)
• Loewen, James, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (NY: New Press, 1995, 2005), 372 pages ($9 & searchable at amazon) critique of 12 textbooks
• Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, Ross Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (1997; Vintage 2000), 352 pages ($9 & searchable at amazon)
• Peter Stearns, Peter Seixas, Wineburg Sam (eds.), Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives: National and International Perspectives (NYU, 2000), 492 pages ($17 at amazon)
• Ronald Evans, The Social Studies Wars: What Should We Teach the Children? (NY: Teacher's College, 2004), 224 pages ($25 at amazon; )
• Linda Symcox, Whose History?: The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms (NY: Teacher's College, 2002), 227 pages ($19 at amazon)
• Ronald W. Evans, The Social Studies Wars: What Should We Teach the Children? (NY: Teacher's College, 2004), 225 pages ($25 at amazon)
• Keith Barton, Linda Levstik, Teaching History for the Common Good (Laurence Erlbaum, 2004), 304 pages ($30 and searchable at amazon; )
• Hein, Laura and Mark Selden (eds.), Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), 301 pages ($22 on amazon; rev. JnlWorldHist; )
• Elie Podeh, "History and Memory in the Israeli Educational System: The Portrayal of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in History Textbooks (1948-2000)," in: History and Memory 15:1(Spring/Summer 2000), 65-100 (proquest, )
• History Debates
  • Germany
    • "Fischer Controversy" about the Origins of World War I (1962ff)
    • "Historians' Debate" about the uniqueness of the Holocaust (1986ff)
      • Maier, Charles, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Harvard, 1988, 2003), 256 pages ($13 & TOC on amazon)
      • Nancy Wood, Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe (New York: Berg, 1999), 38-60: "Public Memory and Postconventional Identity." ($10 at amazon; ) UCSB: BF371.W66 1999.
    • "Goldhagen Debate" about the nature of German antisemitism (1995ff)
      Browning afterword, Omer Bartov, Geoff Eley (ed.)
  • Linenthal, Edward (co-editor), History Wars: The Enola Gay & Other Battles for the American Past (Holt, 1996)
    • Kohn, Richard, "History and the Culture Wars: The Case of the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay Exhibition," JAH 82(1995), 1036-63. (jstor)
  • Lentin (ed.), 2004, chap. 6: Andrea Tyndall, "Memory, Authenticity and Replication of the Shoah in Museums: Defensive Tools of the Nation," 111-125. How Yad Vashem, USHMM, & Anne Frank House maintain national myths.

Week 10 (back to top) *=core reading; ^=assigned supplementary reading

March 12: Biography, Autobiography, Oral History (back to top)

• *Waddell, Colette, Through the Eyes of a Survivor: A Living History of Nina Morecki from pre-World War II Poland to Modern America (Carpinteria: Top Cat Press, 2007), 503 pages, $24.
• Popkin, Jeremy, History, Historians, and Autobiography (Univ. Chicago, 2005), 328 pages ($35 on amazon; lots of reviews on ASAP; Biography: 5p pdf)
• Jeremy Popkin, "Holocaust Memories, Historians' Memoirs: First-Person Narrative and the Memory of the Holocaust," in: History and Memory 15:1(Spring/Summer 2003). first 3 paragraphs (full text on project Muse)
• James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (Blackwell, 1992)(no info on amazon; ) UCSB: BF378.S65 F46 1992. Chapter 2, "Ordering and Transmission of Social Memory," discusses "oral memory" (words/semantics)
• Mark Roseman, A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany (Picador, 2002), 288-263=chap.9, "The Escape" (reconstructing an event based on different versions, and evolution over time)
• Role of Gender
  • Joyce Marie Mushaben, "Collective Memory Divided and Reunited: Mothers, Daughters and the Fascist Experience in Germany," in: History and Memory 11:1(Spring/Summer 1999), 7-40. full text on-line (role of gender)
  • Fentress & Wickham (1992), 137-143: Women's memories
• Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments of Memory (2000)
  • Stefan Maechler, "Wilkomirski the Victim: Individual Remembering as Social Interaction and Public Event," in: History and Memory 13:2(Fall/Winter 2001), 59-95
• Oral History
• Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson, the Oral History Reader (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2006), 578 pages ($30 at amazon). Esp. ch. 3 Portelli; ch. 4 Popular Memory Group; ch. 8 Michael Frisch; ch. 18 Roseman
• Moeller, Robert, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (UC Press, 2001)($19 and searchable at amazon) also AHR
• Jared Stark, "The Task of Testimony: On No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn," in: History and Memory 11:2(Fall 1999), full text on-line. About a testimony in the Fortunoff video archive at Yale.
• Niethammer, Lutz, "Einleitung" und "Privat-Wirtschaft," in: "Hinterher merkt man, dass es schiefgegangen ist..." (Berlin: Dietz, 1983)
• "Oral History under Review," by Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 10, 2006. About the need for Human Subjects permission by Institutional Review Board

New & Recent Books (back to top)

Links on History and Remembering (back to top)

Institutions

• Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research, at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany . Harald Welzer, a 'social psychologist,' is one of the key players.
  • The category research gives their current project, "Autobiographical Memory in Interdisciplinary Perspective," including a list of on-line and other articles and publications, with a list of other projects down the left side menu bar. Most descriptions are in English. The site map is a good guide to finding actual publications.
• Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University. Formerly the Oral History Institute, founded in 1968 and run since the 1980s by John Bodnar, it offers detailed guidelines on "How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews" (with bibliography of 4 recommended books).

Websites

• Cinematography of the Holocaust database, by the Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Frankfurt. Menu bar at bottoms allows scrolling through titles of films (among other things). Each listing contains bibliography and other details. (See also the Videography at the Univ. of S. Florida's Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, which includes vendors)
• "The Human Ecology of Memory," site by Prof. John F. Kihlstrom, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley. Includes two "foundational documents" written by Kihlstrom:
  • 1994/96: "Memory Research: The Convergence of Theory and Practice." Prints on 21 pages, with bibliography (includes Bodnar, Halbwachs)
  • 2000: "Memory, Autobiography, History." Good conceptual clarifications. Prints on 27 pages, with bibliography of memory research going back to the 1930s.
• Interdisciplinary Study of Memory site, by John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, for a 2000-02 seminar. Lots of links and bibliographies. More psychologically oriented, but comprehensive and with updates through 2006.
• Hypertext Exploration of Memory and Mind by John William Schmidt. More scientific than historical, but interesting essays nonetheless.
• Literature of the Holocaust website, by Prof. Al Filreis, UPenn Dept. of English. Contains an alphabetical listing of many dozens of newspaper articles, websites and pieces by Filreis himself.
• Luce Program in Individual and Collective Memory, at Washington University in St. Louis, offers undergraduate and graduate courses and faculty seminars. Unfortunately, the website contains nothing of consequence.

Courses

• Susan Crane, Univ. of Arizona, Fall 2003: "Collective Memory in Japan and Germany since 1945" (excellent bibliography, but poorly formatted)

Journals

• History and Memory (journal by Indiana Univ. Press): Tables of contents 8(1996)-present.
• Special Journal features/issues dedicated to collective memory
  • History and Anthropology, 2(1986)
  • Representations, 26(1989 jstor): Memory & Countermemory;
    35(1991 jstor): Monumental Histories
  • Radical History Review 56(1993): "Memory and History" (TOC at CHNM);
    97(2007): "Truth Commissions: State Terror, History & Memory" (TOC at CHNM)
  • AHR Forum 102(Dec. 1997), 106(June 2001)
    

Bibliography of Important Works on Memory (back to top)

See: Nine scholars name "Breakthrough Books on Collective Memory," Lingua Franca (March/April 1996).

• Connerton, Paul, How Societies Remember (Cambridge UP, 1989), 128pp. ($23 and searchable at amazon; Google books)
• Davis, Nathalie Zemon and Randolph Starn, "Introduction," in: Representations 26 (Spring 1989), 1-6. (Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory) (pdf)
• Finkielkraut, Alain, Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial & Crimes against Humanity (Columbia, 1992), 102 pages ($12 on amazon)
• Gillis, John R, ed. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. ($14 & searchable at amazon)
• Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Ed. Lewis Coser. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992. [1925] Google books (scroll down for search window)(searchable on amazon)
  • former student's intro, then translated preface, short chap. 1-4 excerpts, and chaps. 5, 6, 7, and conclusion of Social Frameworks, also conclusion of the Legendary Topography. HM: posthumous Collective Memory much better.
• Hobsbawm, Eric, "Inventing Tradition," and "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe 1870-1914," in: Hobwbaum & Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (1992), 1-14, 270ff. (google books)
• Huyssen, Andreas. Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. New York: Routledge, 1995. ($20 and searchable on amazon)
• Laqueur, Thomas W., Introduction, in: Representations 69 (Winter 2000), (Special Issue: Grounds for Remembering), 1-8. (jstor, pdf)
• Linenthal, Edward, Sacred Ground: Americans & Their Battlefields (Illinois, 1991), 352 pages. ($12 and searchable on amazon)
• Linenthal, Edward (co-editor), History Wars: The Enola Gay & Other Battles for the American Past (Holt, 1996)($6 and searchable at amazon)
• Miller, Judith, One, by One, by One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 320 pages. ($4 at amazon)
• Pillemer, David B., Momentous Events, Vivid Memories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), esp. chaps. 5 & 6. ($14 and searchable at amazon)
• Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. New York: Cambridge, 1995, 320 pages ($15 and searchable on amazon)
• Young, James. Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning in Europe, Israel, and America. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.