#Historical Memory

Articles (14)

• 🇺🇸 Russia labels Nobel-winning rights group Memorial an extremist movement, TASS says — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Human Rights, #Political Crackdown
• 🇺🇸 Unease in Japan after Trump cites Pearl Harbor to defend Iran war — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  US president's reference to Japan's 1941 attack has shaken Japanese as PM Takaichi's silence gets mixed reaction.

  Related: #Diplomatic Tensions
• 🇺🇸 Opinion: As Trump eyes Cuba, my trips there a decade ago remind me how different things were — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Trump has threatened a 'friendly takeover' of Cuba after cutting it off from Venezuela's oil. CNBC's Justin Solomon reflects how different things used to be.

  Related: #US-Cuba Relations, #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima Survivor Photographed With Obama, Dies at 88 — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s killed in the attack.

  Related: #Obituary, #Peace Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 From mall to torture site: Venezuela debates El Helicoide prison's future — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate — erase it, rebuild it, or remember what happened inside...

  Related: #Prison Reform
• 🇺🇸 From mall to torture site: The debate over El Helicoide's future in Venezuela — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate — erase it, rebuild it, or remember what happened inside...

  Related: #Urban Redevelopment
• 🇺🇸 Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor embraced by Obama, dies at 88 — 17/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Peace Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 ‘Where the Silence Is Heard’ Co-Directors Confront Inherited Trauma in a Chilean Family — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  In the CPH:DOX-debuting doc, Gabriela Pena and Picho García, partners in film and life, return to the womb, figuratively speaking, to explore her relationship with her mother, affected by exile and si...

  Related: #Intergenerational Trauma
• 🇺🇸 ‘Atlas of Disappearance’ Director on Confronting the Decades-Long Silence on Forced Vanishings During Spain’s Franco Regime — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Manuel Correa discusses using cutting-edge technology in his eight-year work on the doc, debuting at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX, and how "modes of repression" are also becoming increasingly sophisticated.

  Related: #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 Chile’s new president has praised Pinochet, a dictator. What does it mean? — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Experts say the views of newly inaugurated president Jose Antonio Kast reflect deep dissatisfaction with the status quo.

  Related: #Political Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Honoring Operation Desert Storm: Waging a battle to build a war memorial — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  In 1991 more than half a million Americans served in Operation Desert Storm; 148 were killed in action, to free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Yet, when Marine veteran Scott Stump set out to build a memo...

  Related: #Military History, #Memorialization, #Veterans Affairs, #Political Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 News Wrap: Palestinian-American killed by settlers in occupied West Bank, officials say — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  n our news wrap Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian-American in the occupied West Bank, National Park Service workers in Philadelphia began re...

  Related: #Middle East Conflict, #Cultural Heritage
• 🇺🇸 2/15/2026: Generally Recognized As Safe; Youngest Survivors — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  First, a report on how GRAS fuels the rise of ultraprocessed foods. Then, the miracle babies of the Mauthausen camp.

  Related: #Food Safety, #Human Survival, #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 Passage: In memoriam — 18/01/2026 [USA]

  "Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgo...

  Related: #Civil Rights, #Social Justice