2. Introduction
• History of the Course
• The Syllabus
– How to read the textbook . In each section, ask
yourself: What is the point Michael Hunt is making?
Why is he making this point? How does he make and
support it? What are defensible alternatives? How
does it relate to what else you have learned?
• Clarification of a Few Terms: Gender, Anarchism,
Socialism, Communism, Terrorism
• Collective Memory and Its History
3. Collective Memory
• Individual vs. Collective Memory
• Collective Memory vs. Academic History
• “We Must Remember Our History” refers to
the need to instill Collective Memory and the
Identity It Confers
• Conflicting Collective Memories as a Site of
Conflict Within Nations and Between Nations
4. Collective Memory
• The Past that is “Remembered” and “Not
Remembered” in a Society and How Reference
to this Past is Given Meaning
• The story that societies tell themselves about
who they were and the relation of this past to
who they are now and what they should do in
the future.
• How is collective memory disseminated?
Schools, films, etc.
• Collective Memories Expressed as Timeless, But
Have Histories
