- The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
- The Brain Booster
Your Guide to Rapid Learning and Remembering
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Techniques and exercises in organization, visualization and association that can dramatically increase your ability to absorb a large amount of information and remember it clearly.
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- The CIA's Memory Prison
A Perverse Logic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Connexions Library: History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
- Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
- Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable communication among members of the opposing camps. While such a dispute may eventually be beneficial to science, in that both sides are clearly being spurred on to produce original research at a frenetic pace, at the moment the clearest manifestation of this dichotomy is miscommunication and friction between factions.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- Don't Forget!
Easy Exercises for a Better Memory At Any Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Exercises for memory training.
- Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief
Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the brain but also such things as memory, emotion, and our hopes and fears.
- Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
- The Ghost in the Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
- The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
- Making Monsters
False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
An exposee of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy.
- Memory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
- Memory hole
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened. The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potential historical documents, in effect, re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda.
- Museum of the World and Image
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individaul experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.
- Myth of a Repressed Memory
False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
- Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2010
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship. The desert also holds the stories of pre-Columbian indigenous societies, 19th-century miners, and political prisoners. A meditation on astronomy, the past, memory, and persistence.
- The obliteration of memories
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
Over 16,000 housing units were damaged during the recent [2021] Israeli attacks on Gaza. What that number doesn't capture however is what else was lost in those places -- the irreplaceable photos, keepsakes, and possessions and that made each a home.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Peddling miracles and amnesia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- Poor Memory leads to fame
Resource Type: Article
Researcher Dr. Fergus Craik discusses his life, his work and, of course, his memory.
- Quotes about Memory
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
Psychic Vibrations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
- The Remembered Past
Resource Type: Article
On the beginnings of our stories -- and the history of who owns them.
- Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- The River of Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
In these essays, Oliver Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes -- above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions, they explored -- the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness -- lie at the heart of science and of this book.
- Sakharov Network welcomes Russian NGO among its ranks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Sakharov Network of former winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought hails today's European Parliament decision to award this year's prize to Memorial, an NGO that defends human rights in countries of the former Soviet Union.
- Telling Tales
Storytelling in the family
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A guide to the art of storytelling.
- "The struggle of memory against forgetting"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happened because ordinary people fought for it.
- The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Witness for the Defense
Resource Type: Book
Book on memory and the creation of false memories.
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