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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989567
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Similar to recent past issues, the six articles in this issue of History & Memory focus on central topics in the history of the twentieth century, including fascism in Italy, the legacy of the Soviet Union, decolonialization in Indonesia, and questions regarding the representation of the Holocaust. As time progresses deeper into the twenty-first century, scholars repeatedly find themselves wrestling with the memory of central, oftentimes traumatic, events in the previous, twentieth century as if the very act of narration might somehow provide the magical panacea that can finally inscribe these and other harrowing moments as closed chapters in history’s dark past.Sally Hill and Giacomo Lichtner open the issue by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmallIntroduction2026-05-02text/htmlen-USIntroduction2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®59082026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02Remove. Retain. Reframe. Visible Legacies of Italian Fascism and What to Do with Them
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989568
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This article considers the vexed question of how to manage or respond to the physical and visual traces of fascism in Italy. Their ubiquity and the variety of responses to them across the country make Italy a particularly interesting case study of what has been called “difficult” or “dissonant” heritage.1 While many Italians may view this heritage with indifference, for others it evokes shame, pain, and guilt or, in some cases, nostalgia and pride. These composite and contradictory emotions inhabit a sense of historical and geographical belonging. At times public discourse focuses on the lasting impacts and contemporary political relevance of the material heritage of fascism. At others, that heritage is viewed as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmallRemove. Retain. Reframe. Visible Legacies of Italian Fascism and What to Do with Them2026-05-02text/htmlen-USRemove. Retain. Reframe. Visible Legacies of Italian Fascism and What to Do with Them2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®1292732026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02Beyond Politics of Memory: Activist Interventions on Soviet-Era World War II Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989569
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The toppling of monuments and at times the erection of other monuments in their place have become a widespread yet controversial phenomenon around the world, which has gained momentum in the past decade.1 In 2015, a student at the University of Cape Town threw a bucket of human excrement at the statue of Cecil Rhodes, a former prime minister of the Cape Colony and a symbol of both British imperialism and white supremacy in South Africa. The student movement born from this act successfully drove the university to remove the Rhodes monument.2 Over a hundred monuments to the American Confederacy fell across the United States between 2015 and 2022, with the rate of removals accelerating alongside the Black Lives
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmallBeyond Politics of Memory: Activist Interventions on Soviet-Era World War II Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe2026-05-02text/htmlen-USBeyond Politics of Memory: Activist Interventions on Soviet-Era World War II Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®1424472026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02“One Name, One Life, One Sign”: The Resistant Memory Commons of the Last Address Project in Russia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989570
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On July 14, 2019, I stepped out of Novoslobodskaia metro station in central Moscow into a summer storm. Umbrella in hand, I followed a Google Maps navigator to 20 Selezniovskaia Street. The building I was looking for was about to be decorated with commemorative signs marking the last known address of two former residents. Like many of thousands of their unjustly persecuted compatriots, the residents— one an actor, the other an accountant—were executed during the Great Terror of the late 1930s for their alleged participation in a criminal conspiracy against the Soviet Union. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government commenced the slow and still unfinished “rehabilitation” of those whom it
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmall“One Name, One Life, One Sign”: The Resistant Memory Commons of the Last Address Project in Russia2026-05-02text/htmlen-US“One Name, One Life, One Sign”: The Resistant Memory Commons of the Last Address Project in Russia2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®1201112026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02Decolonization and Transnational Memory: The Revolusi in Indonesian and Dutch History Education, 1950–2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989571
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In recent years, the Revolusi or Indonesian Revolution (1945–49) has sparked intense historiographical debates in both Indonesia and the Netherlands. The revolution began on August 17, 1945, with Indonesian nationalists proclaiming independence. This marked the onset of an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the newly formed Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire, which sought to reassert colonial control. Scholars and moviemakers have delved into these events from various angles, affecting public discourses through newspapers, television programs, and a variety of cinematic productions.1Several authors and producers have explicitly highlighted blind spots in both Dutch and Indonesian memories of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmallDecolonization and Transnational Memory: The Revolusi in Indonesian and Dutch History Education, 1950–20252026-05-02text/htmlen-USDecolonization and Transnational Memory: The Revolusi in Indonesian and Dutch History Education, 1950–20252026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®1657022026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02Postmodern Holocausts: The “Rape of History” in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989572
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Houston Gwynne Jones, a veteran American archivist and local historian, entitled his presidential address at the annual dinner meeting of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association in 1977, “The Rape of History.” Dr. Jones was not declaring the death of the history profession but mounting a vanguard defense of nineteenth-century German historicism, the concept of history as reconstructing “the story of the past exactly as it happened [wie es eigentlich gewesen],” in Leopold von Ranke’s famous and variously interpreted phrase, taken here to be a claim for an empiricist knowledge of the past. Jones blamed the “rape” of history on professional historians’ “over-specialization” in mass psychology
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmallPostmodern Holocausts: The “Rape of History” in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated2026-05-02text/htmlen-USPostmodern Holocausts: The “Rape of History” in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®1415572026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02(Private) Archival Lives and Afterlives: Clara Licht’s Diaries in History and Memory
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In 2007, the late Dr. Peter King, a retired medieval history lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, penned a short reflective piece on the life and stories of his grandmother—Clara (Kläre) Licht (born Fuchs, 1877–1953). Peter and his grandmother had arrived in Britain in the 1930s along with other members of their family as refugees from National Socialism having fled their homes in Berlin. In the text, with the help of his relative Peter Moser, Peter King detailed the lives of Clara’s parents and grandparents, retelling stories from her childhood and reflecting on her nature and temperament over fifty years after she had passed away. Toward the end of the piece, Peter wrote eloquently about the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/71/image/coversmall(Private) Archival Lives and Afterlives: Clara Licht’s Diaries in History and Memory2026-05-02text/htmlen-US(Private) Archival Lives and Afterlives: Clara Licht’s Diaries in History and Memory2026-05-022026TWOProject MUSE®907822026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-02