Geschichtswissenschaftliche Blogs auf einen Blick
Can fan archiving offer a unique entry point to understanding and preserving the historical dimensions of our present era?
The post Monuments to Popular Culture appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-6/fan-archives/
In Portugal, the restoration or demolition of the landmarks of the ‘Discoveries’ and colonialism has been extensively debated.
The post “Silence of Innocents”: Portuguese De-colonization appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-2/portuguese-decolonization/
The Suvorov Cross, raised in 1899 in memory of the fallen Russian soldiers crossing the Alps in 1799, remains one of the iconic tourist places.
The post Unforgettable Stones: What is their Secret? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-28/suvorov-cross-russia/
Despite its limitations, perhaps etymology can point to subterranean connections between words, spark possibilities for reflection and, thus, create or make explicit neglected semantic possibilities?
The post On the Presences and Absences of Pasts appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-24/etymology-historical-thinking/
The meaning and function of historical monuments and symbols depends from many and manifold variables: formal features, location, social discourses, historical and political context.
The post More on Fascist Monuments and Buildings in Italy appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-24/fascist-monuments-buildings/
Lévesque agrees with Nora’s explanation for the repeated attacks against monumental figures all over the world: the “general politization of history”.
The post Civic Public Space as Conflictual Space appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-23/public-space-conflicts-politization-history/
How should governments respond to demands for removing historic monuments and renaming sites of memory? What role could historical consciousness play with respect...
The post Removing the “Past”: Debates Over Official Sites of Memory appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-29/removing-past-official-memory/
Should yet another monument in Berlin commemorate the Polish victims of the Second World War; in this case Polish citizens who suffered and died during the last war at the hands of German occupants?
The post Yet Another Memorial in Berlin? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-20/polish-victims-memorial-in-berlin/
Charlottesville 2017. The Belgian press took over the topic a few days later and returned to the issue of monuments and street names: l’héritage colonial.
The post Charlottesville and the Controversial Past in Belgium appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-42/charlottesville-and-belgium/
Historic monuments are making the news. The removal of Confederacy leaders’ statues has provoked reaction in the USA. In Australia, at the same time, news that vandals had defaced the Captain Cook statue in Sydney, garnered attention.
The post Are Monuments History? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-34/are-monuments-history/