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How Does The Historian Approach Memory And How Do Historians Use Different Sources To Analyze How History And Memory Interact And Impact On Each Other? This Book Explores The Different Aspects Of The Study Of History And Memory. Divided Into Three Parts The Book Covers Life-stories: Gender, Class, Trauma And Working With 'memory'. Introduction: Working With Memory As Source And Subject / Joan Tumblety -- Part I. Working With Oral Testimony -- Let Me Tell You: Memory And The Practice Of Oral History / Michal Bosworth -- Small Fish, Big Pond: Using A Single Oral Narrative To Reveal Broader Social Change / Lindsey Dodd -- Memory, History And The Law: Testimony In Holocaust And Stolen Generations Trials / Rosanne Kennedy -- Part Ii. Memorialization And Commemoration -- Remembering And Forgetting: The Creation And Destruction Of Inscribed Monuments In Classical Athens / Polly Low -- Visual Cultures Of Memory In Modern Japan: The Historical Uses Of Japanese Art Collections / Franziska Seraphim -- The Contested Memorial Cultures Of Post-liberation France: Polemical Responses To The Legal Purge Of Collaborators, 1944-c.1954 / Joan Tumblety -- The Pictures In The Background: History, Memory And Photography In The Museum / Susan A. Crane -- Part Iii. Between Individual Memory And Collective Memory -- Memory As A Battlefield: Letters By Traumatized German Veterans And Contested Memories Of The Great War / Jason Crouthamel -- Memories Of Suburbia: Autobiographical Fiction And Minority Narratives / Hannah Ewence -- Alienated Memories: Migrants And The Silences Of The Archive / Tony Kushner -- Biography Of A Box: Material Culture And Palimpsest Memory / Susan M. Stabile. Edited By Joan Tumblety. Simultaneously Published In The Usa And Canada--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.