Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred
years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized …

In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery
and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to reinterpret the history of genocide …

In this article, I explore the slow development of a national debate in Canada about
genocide in the Indian residential schools, which I compare to earlier 'history wars' in …

In Australia's recent “History Wars” the fate of Australian Aborigines after settlement has
frequently been compared and contrasted with that of the Jews during the Holocaust. Such …

This article argues that since the election of his Coalition government in 1996, John Howard
and his conservative allies in government and the media have waged a long campaign to …

As poet/performer Leonard Cohen would have it,'Everybody knows the war is
over/Everybody knows the good guys lost': 2 but when it comes to such consideration of the …

Gabowitsch surveys the global spread of collective atonement, a family of phenomena
ranging from public apologies to restitution measures and transitional justice. Observing that …

In this paper, I attempt to offer some new insights into an age-old question: what is the public
usefulness of history and historians? More specifically, I discuss the role of the ideal of the …

Via an examination of the current state of German attempts to come to terms with the
country's genocidal Nazi past, this article underscores the utility of an approach to historical …

Cultural memory involves a community's shared memories, the selection of which is based
on current political and social needs. A past that is significant to a national group is re …