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Vol. 2, No. 1: Fall 1995

What Is Social Memory?

by Scot A. French

“Our stories should be testaments to the enduring significance of their stories, not monuments to our own changing perceptions of the past.”

In planning our conference on social memory and southern history, one question arose again and again: What is social memory? Good question.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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