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This course deals with remembering
and forgetting. We'll look at memory from two different perspectives.
First, we'll examine the way people understood the operation of
memory (how people thought memory worked) and the techniques they
used to cultivate it in the classical, medieval, and modern periods.
Then we'll explore the personal and the social construction of
memory--who remembers, what they remember and forget, and how
they preserve their memories, using the American Civil War and
the Holocaust as working examples. We'll close with a look at
the dynamic of remembering 9/11.
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"Lethe"
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