Contemporary scholarship recognises that narratives are more than mere vessels for recounting past events: they are active agents in the construction of historical meaning. Narrative theory, or ...

Nations do not forget by accident. Forgetting is organised — through silence, omission, selective commemoration, and the quiet erosion of inconvenient truths. The Ikoyi Prison Narratives positions ...

If, as Oscar Wilde jested, “our only duty to history is to rewrite it,” this is certainly the time to radically rethink the narrative of this country’s collective past. Far from a collection of ...

For most of us, the word “battlefield” conjures up images of historic places associated with conflict, like the fields of Gettysburg or the beaches of Normandy. The battlefields of today, however, are ...

Indonesia’s plan to rewrite its official national history was initially met with positive responses, particularly for its goal of better serving the younger generation. But the project to reshape the ...

Last month, the Florida State Board of Education unanimously approved new African American history education standards for K-12 public schools. Among the many alarming directives: middle school ...

Archaeological discoveries from Asia that quietly challenge the conventional historical narrative Millennial man shares eye-opening take on baby boomers Three missing teens located after vanishing ...