"Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to justify great crimes, and ye

Between 1913 and 1989 some four million South Africans were forcibly removed from their homes to enforce residential segregation along racial lines. This study

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or w

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies

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