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Collective memory and cultural history: Problems of method

Alon Confino
- 01 Dec 1997 - 
- Vol. 102, Iss: 5, pp 1386-1403
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1997-12-01. It has received 531 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cultural history & Collective memory.

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On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse

Kerwin Lee Klein
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: The history and memory industry has been a hot topic in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a renewed interest in memorization as an object of study in the field of history and history.
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Collaborative recall and collective memory: What happens when we remember together?

TL;DR: This paper reviews the research on group remembering and draws together findings from different traditions to point the way forward for a cognitive psychological study of collective memory.
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Common Belief and the Cultural Curriculum: An Intergenerational Study of Historical Consciousness

TL;DR: The authors conducted a longitudinal study to understand how historical knowledge is transmitted across generations and the role of schooling in that transmission, focusing on what parents and children shared about one of the most formative historical events in parents' lives: the Vietnam War.
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History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore collective memory through texts and commemorative symbolism, and assume that a study of collective memory is not sufficient for a proper study of memory, and they propose a different approach.