History Year in review: How memory wars have shaped global headlines A round-up of Coda’s coverage of historical revisionism and the role it has played shaping political agendas around the world in 2023. roundup Katia Patin
History Surviving Russia's control After being shut down by Russia’s Supreme Court, Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group, is still operating in Russia, thanks to a survival strategy long in place. feature Katia Patin
History Australia searches for national identity in the trenches of WWI Australian memory culture offers a warning for the United States dispatch Alexander Wells
History The war in Ukraine triggered a reckoning in universities Professors have been debating how to teach imperialism and colonialism in Russia and the wider region since the invasion feature Lydia Tomkiw
History The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini's farmland Mussolini turned the Pontine Marshes into farmland to make Italy an agricultural powerhouse. Today, Indian migrants work the fields in conditions akin to forced labor feature Isobel Cockerell
History Afro-Colombian culture is under siege as armed conflict rages on Threats of violence have forced Colombia’s only African diaspora museum to close its doors feature Erica Hellerstein
History Dresden doesn’t know how to mourn its past Every year on February 13, Dresden turns into a chaotic public laboratory for memory culture feature Alexander Wells
History Russian performance art in the time of Putin What does exile mean for the artists who fled Russia? feature Nadia Beard
History Grieving California Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires feature Erica Hellerstein
History In the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold, myths from the Cambodian genocide still reign One group is trying to disrupt a narrative that has gripped an isolated community for decades. It claims that Vietnam engineered the worst evils of Cambodia’s genocide feature Fiona Kelliher
History Belarusian leader writes Poles, Jews, other minorities out of WWII history in a bid for national unity In Lukashenko’s version of WWII, Belarusian victimhood is central, and Russia’s victory defines the modern Belarusian state and its relationships to its hostile neighbors. feature Michal Kranz
History Unsolved murders and unexamined atrocities threaten Northern Ireland’s precarious social peace Everybody in Northern Ireland lived with their own version of what happened during the Troubles. Then the British government tried to close the book on the conflict feature Caitlin Thompson
History Poland's ministry of memory spins the Holocaust Poland's National Institute of Remembrance is at the center of the right-wing government's efforts to re-shape history feature Katia Patin
History Invasion of Ukraine pushes Georgia to reexamine its fraught history with Moscow Russian involvement in Georgia’s 1990s wars in a breakaway region triggers a reassessment of buried trauma essay Natalia Antelava
History The Russian May 9 holiday points to the toxicity of the country’s politics of memory Under Putin, the Second World War victory day commemoration has been shaped by a carefully choreographing of an invented tradition essay Robert Dale
