History in the Public Realm: Collective Memory?

Course Reader Table of Contents

compiled by Harold Marcuse
(professor of German history at UC Santa Barbara)
Harold Marcuse homepage, Hist 201e course homepage

created January 21, 2007, updated 2/14/11

The following table lists the readings for a 2007 graduate history seminar at UC Santa Barbara, in which the concept of "Collective Memory" was explored theoretically and practically. See the course homepage for more details.

• This reader Table of Contents as a pdf.
• Feb. 2011: See The Collective Memory Reader, compiled by Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Daniel Levy (Oxford University Press, 2011)($27 at amazon, with TOC)

II. Individual vs. Collective Memory

III. Cognition and Memory (psych.)

IV. "Sites" of Memory: Theory

V. "Sites" of Memory: Example

VI. Studies of National Memory

VII. "Vectors" of Memory: Film

VIII. Transmission: Generations

IX. Teaching History

X. Biography, Oral History

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1. Galvin, J.L., Writing Literature Reviews (Pyrezak, 1999, 49-75: Synthesizing Lit, First Draft, Coherence ..............................................................................................................
2. Irwin-Zarecka, Iwona, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory (Transaction, 1994), 193-205: annotated bibliography ....................................................

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• Freud, Sigmund, "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through" (1914), in: Std. Ed. v. 12, 145-157. (Freud 1914 pdf)
• Halbwachs, Maurice, "Individual Memory and Collective Memory," and "Historical Memory and Collective Memory," in: The Collective Memory (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 22-49, 50-87. (pdf ch. 1; pdf ch. 2)

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3. J.W. Pennebaker, D. Paez & B. Rimé (eds.), Collective Memory of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997), chapters:
• Contents and Introduction, v-xi .............................................................................
• 1. Pennebaker & Banasik, "On the Creation and Maintenance of Collective Memories: History as Social Psychology, "3-20 .....................................................
• 2. Martin Conway, "The Inventory of Experience: Memory and Identity," 21-46 ..
• 7. Paez, Basabe, Gonzalez, "Social Processes and Collective Memory: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Remembering Political Events," 147-174 .............................
• 8. Gaskell & Wright, "Group Differences in Memory for a Political Event," 175-190
• 14. Baumeister and Hastings, "Distortions of Collective Memory: How Groups Flatter and Deceive Themselves," 277-294 .................................................................

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4. Pierre Nora, "General Introduction: Between Memory and History," in P.N. (ed.), Realms of Memory v. 1 (Columbia, 1996 [1984]), 1-20; "Introduction to volume 1," 21-23 ..............
5. Pierre Nora, "The Era of Commemoration," in P.N. (ed.), Realms of Memory v. 3 (Columbia, 1998[1992]), 608-637, 702-707 ..................................................................
6. Nancy Wood, "Memory's Remains: Les Lieux de mémoire," in N.W., Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe (Berg, 1999), 15-38......................................

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• James Wertsch, Voices of Collective Remembering (Cambridge, 2002), 202pp.
• Jan Gross, Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Penguin, 2002) [two monographs]

7. Antony Polonski and Joanna Michlic, "Introduction," in: idem (eds.), The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (Princeton, 2004), 1-43

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8. Harold Marcuse, "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe," in: Gordon Martel (ed.), A Companion to Europe, 1900-1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 487-503

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9. Anton Kaes, "History and Film: Public Memory in the Age of Electronic Dissemination," in: History and Memory 2:1(Fall 1990), 111-129

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• Karl Mannheim, "The Sociological Problem of Generations," (1927) in Paul Kecskemeti, Karl Mannheim: Essays (Routledge, 1952, 1972), 276-320 (pdf)

10. Harold Marcuse, "Generational Cohorts and the Shaping of Popular Attitudes towards the Holocaust," in: Remembering for the Future (London: Palgrave: 2001), vol. 3, pp. 652-663

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11. Samuel Wineburg, "On the Reading of Historical Texts: Notes on the Breach between School and Academy," in AERJ 28:3(Fall 1991), 495-519 [reprinted in S.W., Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (Temple, 2001), 63-88.

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12. Mark Roseman, "Surviving Memory: Truth and Inaccuracy in Holocaust Testimony," in: Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds.), The Oral History Reader (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2006), 230-243
13. Mary Brenner, "Interviewing in Educational Research," in: Judith Greene et al (eds.), Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research (AERA, 2006), 257-370.

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