The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be…

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

— Natasha Trethewey

“Are all societies doomed to amnesia—or are there communities that have preserved their collective cultural memory? The world, which is the private property of…

— Anonymous

On a certain level, the film retains a cultural memory. It may be meaningless to some kids, but it doesn't matter. A lot of…

— Joseph M. Kahn

It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's…

— Joseph M. Kahn

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some…

— Gary Hustwit

“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of four thousand…

— James Bradley

“It is always a fashion to advise disputants to sit round a table and solve disputes by dialogue and discussion, and not to resort…

— V. Navaratnam

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer…

— Tom Brokaw

“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims and policies.…

— Brion T. McClanahan

WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have…

— Peter Baker

“She retired early and, consequently, was in ignorance of the receipt of a telegram by Sylvanus Starr announcing the return of Andy P. Symes…

— Caroline Lockhart

“She liked a very particular kind of plot: the sort where the pirate kidnaps some virgin damsel, rapes her into loving him, and then…

— Nicole Peeler

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

— Glenn Greenwald

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The…

— John Adams