Introduction, Martin Henry Blatt Part I: GENOCIDE Chapter 1. A model way of coming to terms with the past? –On the relevance and future tasks of historical-political education in (German) memorial sites, Elke Gryglewski and Katrin Unger; Chapter 2. The Holocaust in American Public Memory, Barry Trachtenberg; Chapter 3. Memorializing Violence as a Political Tool: Public Memory and the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, Timothy Longman Part II: SLAVERY Chapter 4. From Rumblings to Roar: Racial Violence, Historical Justice and the Changing Public History of Slavery in the United States, Renee Romano; Chapter 5. From a culture of abolition to a culture war: Remembering transatlantic enslavement in Britain, 1807-2021, Jessica Moody Part III: RACIAL AND SEXUAL HATRED IN THE UNITED STATES Chapter 6. Myths, Mascots, Monuments, and Massacres: Rethinking Native American history in the public sphere, Maria John; Chapter 7. Creating the Conditions for Repair: Representation, Memorialization, and Commemoration, Karlos Hill and Karen Murphy; Chapter 8. What is Owed? Reparations, an indictment of public memory, Caleb Gayle; Chapter 9. Remembering Pulse, Lisa Arellano Part IV: APARTHEID Chapter 10. The Art of Memory: Echoes of Apartheid Police Brutality in the 2013 Marikana Massacre, Dylan Wray, Sihle Isipho Nontshokweni and Leah Nasson; Chapter 11. The land of milk and honey (and Palestinians), Eitan Bronstein Aparacio and Eleonore Merza Part V: FASCISM AND WAR Chapter 12. Public Commemorations of Argentina’s Histories of Violence, Marisa Lerer; Chapter 13. The Violence of the Vietnam War in the Memorialized American Landscape, Elise Lemire
Biography
Martin Blatt served as Professor of the Practice and Director of the Public History Program at Northeastern University, USA. He has served as President of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, and on the Board of MASS Humanities. Museum credits include a traveling exhibit on the Gulag, produced by the National Park Service, the Gulag Museum, and Amnesty International. He received the NCPH Robert Kelley Award for outstanding achievement in public history.
