This article explores how we deal with controversial topics, traumatic pasts, and uncomfortable truths about world history.
Tag Archive for ‘Racism (Rassismus)’
Visualizing Abolition: Creating a History of Hope
What would it mean to think about the problem of incarceration, not from the view of specialists but from the view of artists?
The New Old Culture Wars
How can public history be educational, impactful, and transformative in the United States’ new era of culture wars?
“Decolonizing Public History?”
Monthly Editorial November 2021 Abstract: The editorial explains the attraction that colonies had for the European bourgeois world – through scientific interest, “scientific,” from today’s perspective pseudo-scientific racism, as well… Read More ›
On the Decolonization of Public Memory
In light of controversially led debates: Which contribution can and should Public History make to a decolonialization of history?
Past & Presentism: Podcasting as Historical Work
Abstract: We argue that historians have a duty to push back against the systemic issues that shape our own field and profession and to respond to current crises and problems…. Read More ›
Transnational Public History
Monthly Editorial July 2021 Abstract: Public history has often been conflated with local history and as such has been seen as less significant than forms of history that speak to… Read More ›
Kant – a Racist?
Abstract: The question of whether Immanuel Kant is a racist or even the founder of European racism is subject to ongoing debate in philosophical research and has only recently sparked… Read More ›