"History, Memory and Memorials"

Recently, I attended a series lecture on memory and monuments at UTEP. (Actually, my notes are pending as to what was presented and discussed at the lecture series.) Anyway, after attending this lecture, I searched the Internet for some websites on memory and monuments which I now present to you in an effort to stress the importance of memory and monuments as a site for rhetorical analysis.

Here are some interesting websites:

"History, Memory and Memorials" -- http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bherek/holo/hmm.html

This website prsents Foucault's "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" as the "theoretical basis" for discussing history and memory.

"Memory, History and Memorials" -- http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/memorials.nsf/Home?OpenFrameSet

This website is fantastic! Check out the artice on civic memory.

"History and Memory in France and the United States" -- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mjdennis/courses/history_410_syllabus.htm

Raymond Birn & Matthew Dennis presented this course with some interesting reads. Check out their syllabus.

"Memory, Autobiography, History" -- http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/rmpa00.htm
John F. Kihlstrom's essay that deliberates about history, memory and the biographical self, which mentions the controversial autobiography by Rigoberta Menchu.

"Preserving Memory: A Study of Monuments and Memorials" -- http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/1/93.01.06.x.html
Yale scholar Bradley McCallum examines the AIDS Quilt and Vietnam Memorials

"Out of Memory!" -- http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110291/purposes/collective/memorials/index.php

A database of memorials around the world.

"The History of Memorials" -- http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/motchan/motchan11.html