Ep. 9 Part 1 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?
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Ep. 9 Part 1 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?
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This week, Allison and Eugene are joined by Kayla Nelson, a public historian. She shares with us the details of who gets to do the remembering, forgetting, and interpreting of history and how those decisions are inherently non-neutral and often politically motivated.
Book Mentions:
The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Podcast Recommendations:
The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025
Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC