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Hosted by Rick Derderian · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 98 episodes
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Realms of Memory is a podcast that looks at how countries confront their darkest chapters, what they gain by doing so, and what happens when they fail to take up this challenge. We feature the insights of leading experts on a wide range of difficult national memories.
Rick Derderian hosts Realms of Memory, a history show with 98 episodes published.
Few scholars have influenced memory studies as much as Jeff Olick. Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, Charlotte, Jeff was co-founder and past co-president of the Memory Studies Association,
Despite the frenzied debates about what history we should be teaching in the United States, until recently most African American and mainstream history museums have continued to tell an uplifting story of racial progress
How can we understand a problem so vast and complex as homelessness? After spending her career writing about the stereotyped and misunderstood, writer Alison Owings was eager to take on the challenge. While this was an o
The problem of homelessness in the United States has reached epic proportions. But how can we understand such a complex issue affecting so many different kinds of people? Writer Alison Owings decided to take on the chall
The challenge of any documentary director with a mission is to make the viewer care. What makes the 2026 Oscar award winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin resonate so powerfully is the love and honesty that inspir
The horrors Russia has been inflicting on Ukraine have sadly become a familiar sight on the daily news. Far less attention has been paid to the consequences of the war for the Russian people. This is the subject of the 2
Americans are divided over most things and the past is no different. We disagree about whether to celebrate or question the past. We’re at odds over whether history indoctrinates or educates and whether young minds are h
Americans have been struggling with the memory of George Washington since his death. Should we celebrate his role in the creation of the nation or lament that he actively participated in and profited from the business of
99% of Poland’s pre-war Jewish population, the largest in Europe, perished during the Holocaust. Polish native and Canadian historian Jan Grabowski argues this death toll is inconceivable without the collusion of the gen
Deeply flawed accounts of the Holocaust persist throughout Central and Eastern Europe. University of Ottawa historian Jan Grabowski argues that nowhere are the distortions of the Holocaust more glaring than in Poland. Th
Fifty years after Francisco Franco’s death Spain remains deeply divided over the past. For over twenty years British native and renowned history tour guide Nick Lloyd has made his living explaining the complexity of this
Ninety years after the start of the Spanish Civil War the past is not past, it’s not even over. Nick Lloyd, who moved from Britain to Barcelona over three decades ago, explains that the left and right in Spain remain pro
In the age of climate change and global pandemics how do we remember the victims? University of Madison, Wisconsin historian Richard C. Keller examines this question through his study of the 2003 heat wave in Paris. This
In his study of the 2003 heat wave in Paris, historian Richard C. Keller reveals the myriad ways we forget the victims of natural disasters. We relegate marginalized and vulnerable populations to the most precarious hous
How can we understand the extraordinary scope and magnitude of global fame and notoriety achieved by Anne Frank? The Anne Frank diary has been translated into over sixty languages and sold over twenty million copies. It
How did the diary of a thirteen year old girl transform Anne Frank into an international memory sensation? Dutch historian David Barnouw, the world’s leading Anne Frank memory expert, has spent his career explaining the
From global warming to mass species extinction we are now living in what Alan Weisman describes as the make or break century. What decisions we make now will determine how we come out on the other side. For the past quar
For the past quarter century journalist and non-fiction writer Alan Weisman has traveled the globe to write about the existential crises that now imperil the planet. In The World Without Us (2007), which became a New Yor
Most cases of intimate partner violence are never made and the stories never told. Joy Neumeyer did both. The victim of an abusive relationship while a graduate student at Berkeley, Joy succeeded in having her former boy
Weaving together her own survivor story with her doctoral research on the Russian past, Joy Neumeyer offers a personal and historical account of intimate partner violence. How do we fall victim to abusive relationships?
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