There are 8 article(s) tagged Aram Goudsouzian:
“The nation’s institutions should encourage an open exploration of its past — one that accounts for both triumphs and shortcomings, one that eschews sloppy oversimplification, one that highlights how history contains an array of voices that have shaped who we are today.”
“To study history, then, is not to regurgitate a timeline of events, but to engage in a dynamic process of interpretation, with stakes for how we define ourselves.”
Two history professors, looking at the city’s Civil Rights Movement since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 55 years ago, talk about Tyre Nichols, police reform and where today’s movement is headed on “Behind The Headlines.”
In the University of Memphis Tigers' basketball museum exhibition, history is marked as B.F. and A.F. The F is for Finch.
The presidential campaign of 1968 was a last hurrah for the “Old Politics,” in which political machines and party leaders determined the major nominees. It also highlighted a “New Politics,” in which candidates took their cases to the people, through party primaries and modern technology.
A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.
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