The essays listed here emphasize the interdependence of memory and history in a variety of contexts. The tension between them--between the historical record and other received narratives about the past--provides a productive motivation for rethinking these categories. Topics range from Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire to the German Peasants' War, the French Revolution, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Aleida Assmann, "Texts, Traces, Trash: the Changing Media of Cultural Memory," Fall 1996, 56: 123-34.

Ulrich Baer, "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition," Winter 2000, 69: 38-62.

Michael Keith Baker, "Memory and Practice: Politics and the Representation of the Past in Eighteenth-Century France," Summer 1985, 11: 134-64.

Svetlana Boym, "From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia," Winter 1995, 49: 133-66.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for 'Indian' Pasts?" Winter 1992, 37: 1-26.

James Clifford, "On Ethnographic Authority," Spring 1983, 2: 118-46.

J.M. Coetzee, "Osip Mandelstam and the Stalin Ode," Summer 1991, 35: 72-83.

Nicholas Dames, "Austen's Nostalgics," Winter 2001, 73: 117-43.

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "The Image of Objectivity," Fall 1992, 40: 81-128.

Natalie Zemon Davis and Randolph Starn, eds., Memory and Counter-Memory, special issue, Spring 1989, number 26.

Natalie Zemon Davis and Randolph Starn, eds., "Introduction," Spring 1989, 26: 1-6.

Gaurav Desai, "Old World Orders: Amitav Ghosh and the Writing of Nostalgia," Winter 2004, 85: 125-48.

Nicholas B. Dirks, "Castes of Mind," Winter 1992, 37: 56-78.

Richard S. Esbenshade, "Remembering to Forget: Memory, History, National Identity in Postwar East-Central Europe," Winter 1995, 49: 72-96.

Sarah Farmer, "Symbols that Face Two Ways: Commemorating the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen," Winter 1995, 49: 97-119.

Claudio Fogu, "Il Duce taumaturgo: Modernist Rhetorics in Fascist Representations of History," Winter 1997, 57: 24-51.

Catherine Gallagher, "When Did the Confederate States of America Free the Slaves?" Spring 2007, 98: 53-61.

Catherine Gallagher, Mark Maslan, and Paul K. Saint-Amour, eds., Counterfactual Realities, special forum introduction, Spring 2007, 98: 51-52.

Matthew Giancarlo, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Vowel Shift? The Changing Ideological Intersections of Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Literary History," Fall 2001, 76: 27-60.

Luce Giard, "Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's Heterology and the New World" (trans. Katharine Streip), Winter 1991, 33: 212-21.

Stephen Greenblatt, "Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion," February 1983, 1: 1-30.

Stephen Greenblatt, István Rév, and Randolph Starn, eds., Identifying Histories: Eastern Europe Before and After 1989, special issue, Winter 1995, number 49.

Denis Hollier, "Bloody Sundays" (trans. Betsy Wing), Fall 1989, 28: 77-89.

Imperial Fantasies and Postcolonial Histories, special issue, Winter 1992, number 37.

Regina Janes, "Beheadings," Summer 1991, 35: 21-51.

Kerwin Lee Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse," Winter 2000, 69: 127-50

Steven Knapp, "Collective Memory and the Actual Past," Spring 1989, 26: 123-49.

Thomas W. Laqueur, ed., Grounds for Remembering, special issue, Winter 2000, number 69.

Thomas W. Laqueur, ed., "Introduction," Winter 2000, 69: 1-8.

Alan Liu, "Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail," Fall 1990, 32: 75-113.

David Lloyd, "The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger," Fall 2005, 92: 152-85.

Ruth Mack, "The Historicity of Johnson’s Lexicographer," Fall 2001, 76: 61-87.

Barbara Mann, "Modernism and the Zionist Uncanny: Reading the Old Cemetary in Tel Aviv," Winter 2000, 69: 63-95.

Mark Maslan, "Telling to Live the Tale: Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris, and Postmodern Nationalism," Spring 2007, 98: 62-76.

Peter Metcalf, "Aban Jau's Boast," Winter 1992, 37: 136-50.