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    • The Haunting Past of Colonialism in Belgium the Death of Patrice Lumumba in Public Memory 

      Verbeeck, Georgi <Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium> (G. Verbeeck, The Haunting Past of Colonialism in Belgium the Death of Patrice Lumumba in Public Memory, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 2, pp. 89-98, 2021)
      The remembrance of the death of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of the Congo in Belgium is indicative of a fundamental transformation in the latter country’s public memory of its former role as a colonizing ...

    • Introduction: Understanding Diverse Uses of Painful Pasts. A Plea for Conscious Normativity 

      Dierks, Dennis <Department of History, University of Jena, Jena, Germany> (D. Dierks, Introduction: Understanding Diverse Uses of Painful Pasts. A Plea for Conscious Normativity, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 2, 2021)
      The three case studies of this special section address an issue that is undoubtedly at the core of the ethics of Public History: the quest to democratize history. They approach a problem that has concerned Public History ...

    • Crowdsourced COVID-19 Collections: A Brief Overview 

      Zumthurm, Tizian <Public History, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg> (T. Zumthurm, Crowdsourced COVID-19 Collections: A Brief Overview, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, pp. 77-83, 2021)
      This article provides an overview of how public historians and other actors collect material on the global COVID-19 pandemic. Their common goal is to archive a diversity of perspectives to document these historic times. ...

    • Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland 

      Purdue, Olwen <Queen’s University, Belfast, UK> (O. Purdue, Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, pp. 67-75, 2021)
      This article explores the challenges and opportunities presented for the teaching and practice of public history in a post-conflict society that remains deeply divided over its past. It examines some of the negative ways ...

    • Reprogramming the History of Video Games: A Historian’s Approach to Video Games and Their History 

      Lawler, Jeffrey <California State University, Long Beach, USA>; Smith, Sean <California State University, Long Beach, USA> (J. Lawler, S. Smith, Reprogramming the History of Video Games: A Historian’s Approach to Video Games and Their History, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, pp. 47-54, 2021)
      This paper explores the need and opportunities for historians to recognize the importance of video games to their research in modern American history. While this paper is rooted in examples specific to United States history, ...

    • “No One is Ever Ready for Something Like This.” – On the Dialectic of the Holocaust in First-Person Shooters as Exemplified by Wolfenstein: The New Order 

      Pfister, Eugen <Hochschule der Künste Bern – HKB, Bern, Switzerland>; Zimmermann, Felix <a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne/University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany> (E. Pfister, F. Zimmermann, “No One is Ever Ready for Something Like This.” – On the Dialectic of the Holocaust in First-Person Shooters as Exemplified by Wolfenstein: The New Order, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, 2021)
      For almost three decades, the depiction of the Holocaust was considered taboo in digital games. While World War II became a popular historicizing setting for digital games, the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust ...

    • Toward a Foucauldian Genealogy of Video Game (Pre)history 

      Trépanier-Jobin, Gabrielle <Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada> (G. Trépanier-Jobin, Toward a Foucauldian Genealogy of Video Game (Pre)history, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, pp. 25-34, 2021)
      This paper highlights the distortive nature of narrative models that are often employed in video game historiographies to produce captivating tales. More precisely, it argues against: the search for video games’ origin(s); ...

    • Playful Curation: A Case Study of Doki-Doki Station Museum’s Role in Preserving Digital Game History in Indonesia 

      Jiwandono, Haryo <Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia>; Purwandi, Edeliya Relanika <Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia> (H.P. Jiwandono, E.R. Purwandi, Playful Curation: A Case Study of Doki-Doki Station Museum’s Role in Preserving Digital Game History in Indonesia, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, pp. 17-23, 2021)
      Digital game preservation is a key element in framing the historical importance of digital game culture. Digital game preservation processes in the global north, particularly in countries such as the United States and the ...

    • Building a Video Game Collection: Lessons Learned from The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games 

      Dyson, Jon-Paul C. <Director, International Center for the History of Electronic Games and Vice President for Exhibits, The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY, USA> (J.-P. C. Dyson, Building a Video Game Collection: Lessons Learned from The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, 2021)
      In 2006, The Strong National Museum of Play began an initiative to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of video games. That effort led to the founding of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games ...

    • “How Do We Play this Thing?”: The State of Historical Research on Videogames 

      Guay-Bélanger, Dany <Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada> (G.B. Dany, “How Do We Play this Thing?”: The State of Historical Research on Videogames, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 1, 2021)
      Though previously overlooked by academia, scholars from a wide array of fields now consider videogames as a serious subject of inquiry. The emergence of game studies as a standalone discipline has led to the publication ...

    • Susan Neiman: Learning from the Germans – Race and the Memory of Evil & Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezak: Contested Commemoration in U.S. History – Diverging Public Interpretations 

      Blatt, Marty <Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA> (B. Marty, recensione a, Susan Neiman: Learning from the Germans – Race and the Memory of Evil & Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezak: Contested Commemoration in U.S. History – Diverging Public Interpretations, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2,, 2020)

    • Brave New Curriculum: Aotearoa New Zealand History and New Zealand’s Schools 

      Belgrave, Micheal <Massey University, Albany, New Zealand> (M. Belgrave, Brave New Curriculum: Aotearoa New Zealand History and New Zealand’s Schools, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, pp. 1-7, 2020)
      Public history in New Zealand since the 1990s has been often dominated by the need to acknowledge New Zealand’s colonial past. Included in the British Empire by treaty in 1840 between the British Crown and its indigenous ...

    • It is Young People that Give Me Hope 

      Feyen, Christoph <German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Colombo, Sri Lanka> (F. Christoph. It is Young People that Give Me Hope, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Seventy-seven years after gaining independence and 11 years after the end of a long civil war, Sri Lankan public discourse is still searching for a broadly accepted concept of national identity and struggling to find ...

    • Historical Consciousness and Transitional Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka 

      Dewasiri, Nirmal <University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka> (N. Dewasiri, Historical Consciousness and Transitional Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Historical consciousness is a decisive factor in Sri Lanka with regards to the relationships between Sinhala and Tamil ethnic communities. It functioned as a great divide between these two communities. It was also used as ...

    • Re-imaging an Inclusive People’s History 

      Naidu-Silverman, Ereshnee <International Sites of Conscience Network, New York City, USA> (E. Naidu-Silverman, Re-imaging an Inclusive People’s History, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Drawing on the meaning of memorialization with examples from South Africa, this article argues that given the racist history of the USA, the meanings and function of memorials to the past should be subverted to continue ...

    • A Public History of monuments 

      Cauvin, Thomas <Université du Luxembourg> (2022)
      Recent controversies over monuments question not only who should be represented and commemorated in the public space but also who can decide whether to remove or not the monuments. In doing so, those controversies relate ...

    • Historians, Public History, and Transitional Justice: Baltic Experiences 

      Pettai, Eva-Clarita <Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena, Jena, Germany> (E.C. Pettai, Historians, Public History, and Transitional Justice: Baltic Experiences, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020)
      How does public history correlate with issues of transitional justice and democratization? What are the roles and functions of professional historians during revolutionary moments and in the building of democratic culture ...

    • Recent History in the Courtroom: Notes on an Experience as an Expert Witness in a Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze>; Garaño, Santiago <National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National University of Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina> (S. Garaño, Recent History in the Courtroom: Notes on an Experience as an Expert Witness in a Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020)
      In this work I reflect on a new figure that has been gaining presence in trials for crimes against humanity since 2005: the “context witness,” a specialist – usually coming from social sciences – who is presented as a ...

    • The Historian’s Role, Public History, and the National Truth Commission in Brazil 

      Viz Quadrat, Samantha <Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil> (S. Viz Quadrat, The Historian’s Role, Public History, and the National Truth Commission in Brazil, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020)
      In 2011, twenty-six years after the end of the military dictatorship, the Brazilian government took the initiative of implementing the right to memory and to the truth, as well as promoting national reconciliation. A ...

    • En(countering) Silence – Some Thoughts on Historical Justice after Memoricide 

      Du Toit, Fanie <Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and Associate, InTransformation Initiative, Pretoria, South Africa> (2020)
      This essay argues that public historians and transitional justice experts need one another’s input in at least two crucial tasks facing nations after episodes of mass violence. In challenging the silence that typically ...