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Memory

Remembering Violeta Parra

Roundtable Review of Jeremi Suri’s Civil War by Other Means

Humanizing Great Mother Russia: “Ekaterina” on Amazon Prime

Film Review: La Llorona, Directed by Jayro Bustamante

Memory's Turn

Review of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (2014)

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The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, by Ronen Steinberg (2019)

A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

Revisiting Into the Wild

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

Digital Archive Review – Más de 72

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Review of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (2017), by Cyrus Schayegh

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

When Answers are not Enough: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Review of The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (2014), by Sebastián Carassai

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Chan is Missing (1982)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Screening Vietnam: First Blood and Jaws

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

Writing Chinese History

Historical Perspectives on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013)

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick (2011)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (1985)

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

Life and Nothing But (1989)

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Book cover of Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steve J. Stern

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steven Stern (2006)

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)

The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)

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