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Rewriting History

Interpreting the past to serve political agendas

Narrative spin
Poland’s ruling party demands Germany pay reparations to score political points
feature
Amanda Coakley
Identity
The BJP is failing to stop ethnic riots in northeast India
feature
Alishan Jafri
Identity
Nigeria struggles to bridge ethnic divide after the election
feature
Daniel Adeyemi
Memory
Poland’s ministry of memory spins the Holocaust
feature
Katia Patin
Identity
Pro-Russian rallies sputter, but still rattle a nervous Germany
feature
Sally McGrane
Memory
The Russian May 9 holiday points to the toxicity of the country’s politics of memory
essay
Robert Dale
Memory
Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the US
feature
Erica Hellerstein
Identity
Exploring the everyday lives of the people in eastern Ukraine
q&a
Mariam Kiparoidze
Amnesia

When the record disappears

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Amnesia
History, identity and politics clash in the pages of school textbooks
feature
Coda Staff
Amnesia
The Nazi concentration camps on British soil the UK government tried to forget
feature
Isobel Cockerell
Amnesia
Fury and grief for Spaniards in fight to remove Franco’s murdered victims from the Valley of the Fallen
feature
Isobel Cockerell
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Identity

Contesting personal narratives

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Identity
The BJP is failing to stop ethnic riots in northeast India
feature
Alishan Jafri
Identity
Nigeria struggles to bridge ethnic divide after the election
feature
Daniel Adeyemi
Identity
India reopens its Khalistan wounds
feature
Alishan Jafri
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Memory

The politics of forgetting

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Memory
Australia searches for national identity in the trenches of WWI
dispatch
Alexander Wells
Memory
The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini’s farmland
feature
Isobel Cockerell
Memory
Afro-Colombian culture is under siege as armed conflict rages on
feature
Erica Hellerstein
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Narrative spin

Historical distortions

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Narrative spin
Poland’s ruling party demands Germany pay reparations to score political points
feature
Amanda Coakley
Narrative spin
Nigeria’s economy is in the hands of a UK judge
feature
Ope Adetayo and Frankie Vetch
Narrative spin
Why Florida’s new university restrictions are ‘straight out of the global authoritarian playbook’
q&a
Erica Hellerstein
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