GOVT 2011 - September 11 and the Politics of Memory

(crosslisted) AMST 2012, SHUM 2011
(SSC-AS) (SBA-AG)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

J. Margulies.

As a country, we are what we remember. But who decides what facts and stories about the past are important enough to memorialize? What does that decision tell us about power and truth? This class will discuss how the attacks of September 11 are remembered in the United States and the rest of the world. (AM)