Clara Ester will never forget the look on Martin Luther King Jr.’s face as he lay beside her on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
Lectures
Kent State University is a “wounded healer,” said President Beverly J. Warren. Warren discussed the remembering, reflecting and redefining of the May 4, 1970, shootings
Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and activism are often identified by famous speeches and writing, notably pieces like “I Have a Dream” and “Letter from
When Abby Smith Rumsey started working at the Library of Congress, she was worried about the amount of information being produced digitally. “I was very
Peniel Joseph refers to his mother as his first historian. As an immigrant from Haiti, Joseph’s mother raised him in New York City during the
It’s been 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and Clara Ester still describes the experience as “almost unspeakable.” Ester, now a
A panoramic photo, a missing panel and a plot against a Native American tribe — the elements of a forgotten, rather removed, piece of American
As a child, Bryan Stevenson’s biggest dream was to swim in a swimming pool. When he and his sister, Christy, recall the first time they
Editor’s note: Because of health issues, Ruby Nell Sales is unable to deliver her previously scheduled 2 p.m. lecture Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Hall
Sara J. Bloomfield spoke to collective and individual memory in relation to history at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Monday, Aug. 13, in the Amphitheater,
Too often throughout history, the record and story of what’s told is governed by principles outside of fact and truth. In a growing age of
Amid social and political tensions and movements like Black Lives Matter, Peniel Joseph believes the principles of equality preached by Martin Luther King Jr. are
In the 1970s, historians began focusing on memory about wars and other historical events, as noted in the book Memory and History: Understanding Memory as
As founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson and his colleagues have fought to reform Alabama’s criminal justice system since 1989
Volker Benkert, assistant professor of history at Arizona State University, grew up in Germany, where he was exposed to the memory of the Nazi and
In the seventh edition of the Interfaith Friday Series, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion, moderated a number of questions with