HIST 166
VT: History and Memory · 3 credits · Spring 2027
About this course
How history is remembered and how the memory of history contributes to and differs from the writing of history. The course will explore how historic eventsare commemorated and what this tells us about the values and beliefs of those commemorating, how different cultures and groups remember history, and therole that institutionalized social structures play in the remembrance of history. Attention will be paid to the nature of the discipline of history and the role historicmemory and oral history play in the discipline. Topic will be announced at registration time. May be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.
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