Tag Archive for ‘Memorials (Gedenkstätten)’

Student Learning Circuits, War Memorials and Anzac

Anzac’s appeal produces strong student engagement in the classroom and online. Entrenched ideas generate resistance to critique.

How the history of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been passed on, can be broken down into five periods.

Two approaches of the IWalk app framework in the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial site enable historical learning.

Underlying inequalities will remain despite the erasure of historically racist monuments, and perhaps even by virtue of such erasure.

Lebanon’s commemorations serve multiple purposes. History and memory in Lebanon are deeply contested and highly politicized.

History Politics as kind of siege mentality, when the state sees any criticism of its past as support for the enemy. See e.g. Sandarmokh.