Revisionist History Research Articles

New Heroines for New Causes: how provincial women promoted a revisionist history through post-suffrage pageants

ABSTRACTThe selection and promotion of powerful role models was a major source of inspiration during the suffrage movement, with figures such as Joan of Arc invoked as justifying women’s rights. This research shows the tradition continued post-1914, but with a different focus. Well over a hundred amateur pageants of noble women were staged with a changing pantheon reflecting women’s new roles and aspirations. These events were staged by both religious and secular groups throughout Britain, but were most common in the small industrial towns of the Pennines, the South West and North East where Nonconformity was strong. The pageants varied from a couple of dozen performers to 1000, with newspapers frequently praising their elaborate costumes and historical accuracy. Though certain formats and characters appeared regularly, narrative choices often reflected the organisers’ tastes, sometimes introducing local heroines or reclaiming the Bible as a source of inspiration for powerful women.

Daniel’s Four Kingdoms Schema: A History of Re-writing World History

Twice in the book of Daniel (chs. 2 and 7), a fourfold pattern summarizes the history of the world as a succession of gentile kingdoms that derive their sovereignty from Yhwh. This “four-kingdom schema” has proven to be one of the most influential time structuring devices of the past three millennia. This article uses “schema theory,” a tool developed in the modern discipline of psychology, to analyze the four-kingdoms schema. An overview of the reception history of this schema provides evidence for how and why it continues to function even in contemporary political discourse.

Macedonia’s colourful revolution and the elections of 2016. A chance for democracy, or all for nothing?

Abstract This article analyses Macedonia’s Colourful Revolution and elections of 2016 against the background of the criticism and protests directed against the Skopje 2014 Project. It also provides a photographic reportage of Skopje 2014 during the political turmoil from July 2016. It examines the main grounds for resistance and opposition to Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE government by further investigating the controversies surrounding Skopje 2014. Those controversies are manifold but stem mainly from the project’s tremendous cost and corruption, its controversial rewriting of history and its exclusion of Albanians and other minorities. Finally, the article argues that the Colourful Revolution has until now failed to overturn or decisively upset Macedonia’s politics or political system, as is evident from election results there. However, it has borne fruit in one respect in that two Albanian MPs have been included in the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), a tentative step towards overcoming the ethnic deadlock of Macedonian politics.

A brief introduction to popular cinema in Bengal: genre, stardom, public cultures

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the emergence and evolution of cinema in Bengal as a form of public culture since the early 20th century to its contemporary phase. Locating this cinema within the crosscurrents of political, historical and cultural transformation, the paper begins with reviewing the scholarship on Bengali cinema that has materialised over the last two decades. While a holistic history of Bengali cinema is still to be written, the scholarly works produced so far have revealed the problematic of writing such a history. We argue no linear narrative is possible, for so-called Bengali cinema, as the category of ‘regional cinema’ in India, is a product of conflicting forces, as regards to political conditions, industry, aesthetics, taste and target viewership. The construction of Bengali popular cinema, as distinct from a more widely circulated national cinema represented by the Bombay film industry, is an intriguing and complex process. This note summarising the scholarly contributions to this issue, proposes that a revisionist history of “Bengali” cinema could be possibly written, through an investigation of industry dynamics over the decades: technological transformations in filmmaking, changing economic networks of film production and distribution, publicity strategies, public cultures of film viewing, and the wide range of audiences the different forms of film have targeted, from the studio era to the present day. While shifting the focus from auteur studies and analyses of film texts as self-contained material, this ‘introduction’ propose that a new historiography of popular cinema in Bengal could be drawn by examining the dynamics of the emergence of stars and construction of stardom, along with a critical assessment of repeated success of certain genres and tropes over the decades.​

The Transfer of Public Lands Movement: Taking Backk Lands That Were Never Theirs and Other Examples of Legal Falsehoods and Revisionist History

Long a hotbed of discontent over federal public land management, Utah rekindled the smoldering “sagebrush rebellion” in 2012 when it passed legislation demanding that the federal government turn millions of acres of public land over to the state. Backed by a multi-million-dollar litigation budget, Utah’s efforts became a model for bills that sprang up in Congress and across the West. While unlikely to succeed in the courts, the transfer movement taps into a long history of antagonism over public land management. This discontent, when combined with the threat of litigation, could drive federal legislation devolving the public domain to the states — and that could forever reshape our nation. Alarmingly, disgruntled individuals are also seizing on Utah’s legal theories to justify wresting public lands from the federal government, too often in violent ways. This article explores the land transfer movement, putting current demands into historical context, critiquing the legal and policy arguments favoring compulsory public land disposal, summarizing the unintended consequences that would flow from public land transfers, identifying the frustrations driving transfer efforts, and offering constructive alternatives to transfer that address the underlying frustrations.

“I Was Too Chickenhearted to Publish it”: Seán O’Faoláin, Displacement and History Re-Written

This article concerns the re-writing of an Irish historical moment within the short story genre, focusing on the renowned Irish writer Seán O’Faoláin (1900-1991). O’Faoláin, it is argued here, attempted to alleviate the “trauma” of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) through his writing. This piece offers a comparative analysis of O’Faoláin’s treatment of the Civil War in his autobiography, Vive Moi! (1993), and in two short stories, “Fugue” and “The Bomb Shop”, from the collection Midsummer Night Madness (1932), examining his re-writing of several key episodes from the Civil War. As this article demonstrates, O’Faoláin re-wrote these so that they became part of a less contentious War of Independence narrative.

Cassette Tape Revival as Creative Anachronism

ABSTRACTListeners of a certain age tend to think that the cassette tape fell out of favour sometime during the 1990s, but is experiencing a revival of sorts as curious Millennials discover the pleasures of mixtapes and decaying media. But cassette tapes have been in constant use since their invention in 1963. Outside of North America and Western Europe, the tape is still the predominant phonographic medium, and is unseating hard drives as the preferred medium for data storage. For whom, then, is this a revival? My article argues that the tape revival is less an attempt at neutral recuperation of the past than a purposeful rewriting of history. Cassettes are particularly potent because they signify death and decay more forcefully even than vinyl. Their acoustic imperfections and mechanical frailties are now aestheticized in novels and contemporary popular music. Even curated listening experiences, from podcasts to streaming services, are designed to replicate the mixtape. The second era of the cassette tape represents another example of Simon Reynolds’ concept of retromania, and can be fruitfully understood as a chapter in the evolving story of phonographic waste.

Africa Speaks?: Black Monsters and Revisionary History in Horror Films

This paper analyzes three fils, The Night of the Sorcers (1973), Panga (1991) and Domimion: Prequel to the Exorcist (20005), within the context of postcolonial theory. I examine how the films interweave themes of possession, magic, and monsters with a legacy of colonialism, constructing terror interactions with raced bodies. This paper argues that the threat in these films is not the mere existence of blackness, but rather the possibility of contracting blackness. Morever, these narratives affect a new reality, practicing a form of revisionary history that provides the other with a form (or at least the opportunity) of agency.

Hagiography, revisionism & blasphemy in Internet histories

ABSTRACTAs a whole, existing histories of the Internet's creation and development are stories of success and triumph. In this respect, they resemble hagiographies, a literary genre that consists of accounts of Christian saints and their miraculous deeds. Internet historians should break free of their familiar hagiographic mode, and treat their historical subjects more critically. The starting point for revisionist histories of networking is an acceptance that the Internet is flawed, dangerous and ephemeral.

Spanish Holocaust through Memory Representation: Fictional Biography of Neus Català

Spanish Holocaust through Memory Representation:Fictional Biography of Neus Català Ana Corbalán "No reivindicamos la verdad como unprivilegio, sino por justicia y reconstituciónde una parte histórica que arranca de 1.936;por el respeto a nuestras muertas, pordesagraviar a tantas mujeres olvidadas." (Neus Català, De la resistencia y la deportación 29) It is estimated that 15,000 Spaniards died in German concentration camps. However, the troubling reality that accounted for the repression experienced by the Spanish Republicans in occupied France and Nazi Germany during the Second World War has not been widely studied. Although not particularly well known, there are several testimonies, documentaries, and narratives that focus on the Spanish Holocaust.1 These narratives are especially traumatic because they describe the humiliations suffered by human beings who were stripped of their [End Page 368] dignity while detained in the Nazi camps.2 According to Michel Leiberich, these texts serve to explore key concepts such as: democracy, human rights, human values, human dignity, and freedom (118). Despite considerable scholarship about the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, few publications explore the importance of Spanish women's roles during that time period, and scant attention has been given to the presence of female activists who fought against international Fascism.3 Recovering their silenced voices is the first step towards the rewriting of history, due to the scarcity of narratives that stress women's agency in the concentration camps.4 It is important to consider that the last survivors of the Spanish Civil War are currently in their nineties. Their advanced age means that little time remains to address, through retelling their stories, the damage suffered by exiled and deported women.5 By hearing these voices—from their memoirs, oral testimonies, and fictional biographies—we can understand their crucial role in the resistance against totalitarian regimes and how they protested the systematic violation of human rights that they endured during times of dictatorship and war. Thus, it is imperative that we [End Page 369] recover the missing information about women's activism in order to add their life accounts to the annals of history. One of these women is Neus Català, born in a small rural town in the province of Tarragona in 1915. She was politically active even in her childhood, due to her parents' affiliation with the Communist Party. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Català left Spain and joined the French Resistance until the Gestapo arrested her in 1943. Shortly after that, she was sent to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp where it is estimated that 92,000 people died. Her memory text, Cenizas en el cielo: La vida de Neus Català, written by Carme Martí in 2012, reconstructs this deportee's sufferings in Ravensbrück.6 At the time of the publication of this novel Català was ninety-six years old, and she felt the urgency of sharing her memories about her experiences in a concentration camp. The text recounts Català's most important life events: her childhood, her maturation, and her traumatic memories of war, repression, exile, and deportation. Using a female, feminist, and anti-fascist political lens, Cenizas en el cielo vindicates the memory of thousands of Republican women who experienced the humiliation of Nazi concentration camps. Consequently, Cenizas en el cielo reconstructs and reinterprets the forgotten history of the Spanish Holocaust through the eyes of a woman who suffered a systematic violation of her most basic human rights. The protagonist of the novel embodies an ostensibly real and historical figure. In a similar way, the fictional account of this witness in the camp allows the contemporary reader to understand the trauma suffered by millions of people who were detained in the Nazi camps. This text, alongside former testimonies from Spanish Holocaust survivors collected by Català in De la resistencia y deportación: 50 Testimonios de mujeres españolas, establishes an effective link to the study of women's historical memory, especially since, as Català's fictional narrative voice notes in Martí's novel, the deported women have been almost completely forgotten: "los deportados españoles son los grandes olvidados de esta historia, y nosotras somos las olvidadas...

Vad är utbildningshistoria? Ett forskningsfälts historia, framtid och relation till pedagogikämnet

In this inaugural lecture, I present an overview of the development of this research field on the international as well as national, Swedish level. After delineating the research object of educational history, I begin by sketching the transition from an older tradition of educational history, often labelled history of educational thought, to what is often referred to as the new (or revisionist) history of education. Thereafter, I discuss the state of the art of Swedish educational history at the turn of the millennium within an international context. To conclude, this lecture discusses the relationship between educational history and the discipline of education (pedagogik) in Sweden and provides suggestions for future strands of research.

Geschichte Als Widerstand: Geschichtsschreibung und Nation-Building In Qaḏḏāfīs Lybien par Jakob Krais

BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS 373 the last twenty years, almost none of which is cited in the book. This is unfortunate given the author’s ambition to offer an account that integrates recent scholarship. To conclude, apart from disentangling confusing events and despite the lacunae in religious and ideological matters, this book illustrates the advantages of studying history as entangled history. The history covered here is entangled in the conventional sense in that we can recognize the relationship between Christian-Muslim encounters at different points around the Mediterranean. It is also a case of entangled history within the Muslim world. Entangled history typically tells the story of regions and actors separated by culture. The present book demonstrates that even within what is considered a single culture there are the barriers between Maghrib and Mashriq which endure in modern scholarship. ANNA AKASOY Hunter College, New York KRAIS, JAKOB. GESCHICHTE ALS WIDERSTAND: GESCHICHTSSCHREIBUNG UND NATION-BUILDING IN QAḎḎĀFĪS LYBIEN. WÜRZBURG 2016. The Arabist and historian Jakob Krais investigates in his doctoral dissertation, written at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and published in 2016 as ‘History as Resistance: Historiography and NationBuilding in Qaḏḏāfī’s Libya’, the official depiction of Libyan national history under the Qaḏḏāfī regime. His dissertation, which is the first monograph on this subject, analyses the output of the Libyan Studies Centre (LSC) between its foundation in 1978 and the start of the Libyan Revolution in 2011. The goal of the LSC was, according to Krais, to help create national identity through the decolonisation and reclaiming of Libyan historiography, based on the assumption that complete independence could only be reached once historiography had been cleansed of all colonial ideas and thought processes. While Krais highlighted the influence of the ideology of the Qaḏḏāfī regime on both the ideas expressed and the research topics chosen by the LSC, he is careful to note that their publications could not be dismissed as political propaganda. However, the various large-scale research projects of the LSC clearly show a political orientation. Among them were, for example, an oral history project which focused on collecting eyewitness statements about the fight against Italian colonial rule, an investigation in Ottoman archives for relevant material, and a project collecting and translating other foreign (nonItalian ) documents and travel accounts. This focus on oral history and Ottoman 374 BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS source material tried to address the problem of dependence on European archives, and the Eurocentric perspective that comes with both European archives and European material. Krais states: ‘The core of a decolonised rewriting of history consists of the concentration on local primary sources.’1 While Krais’ monograph is an important contribution to the history of Libya, by portraying one strand of politicised academia, it is equally significant to postcolonial studies of historiography. He clearly sees his project as a practical case study illustrating a broader movement of reclaiming historiography in former colonies by opposing colonial and Orientalist perspectives and discourses, which started in the 1960s. He continuously contextualises the situation in Libya by giving information on similar or dissimilar developments in other former colonies, especially in the other North African nations. This movement sees historiography as capable of creating a new, shared and staunchly postcolonial identity, free from internalised colonial stereotypes. This process of reclaiming and rewriting history is mainly marked by a shift in perspective, turning the colonised, formerly described by colonial authors as passive, degenerated and in decay, into active and central participants in the development of their respective countries. The LSC constructed the refutation of all forms of imperialism and the active resistance against Italian rule as the central theme in the composition of a new and comprehensive national Libyan history. Krais argues that the emphasis the LSC placed on resistance (i.e. the active struggle against colonialism, and the reinterpretation of people fighting in any way against colonial rule as heroes) ‘decisively shapes the assessment and interpretation of all other historical epochs’.2 His book analyses the reframing of precolonial Libyan history by the LSC as a constant form of resistance against foreign enemies and points out the problematic anachronism of using a vocabulary and theories...

The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 by Aaron N. Coleman

Reviewed by: The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 by Aaron N. Coleman Johnathan O'Neill The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800. By Aaron N. Coleman. ( Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. xii, 259. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4985-0062-3.) The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 offers itself as a revisionist history of the American Founding that corrects what author Aaron N. Coleman calls the "nationalist" conventional wisdom (p. 3). Scholars in thrall to this syllabus of errors, including major figures in the field, are said to have read their approval of later centralization back onto the Founding era. The nationalist interpretation has not adequately appreciated that state sovereignty was the basis of the Revolution and the Union, and that it endured throughout the Founding era, despite the contrary designs of Alexander Hamilton and his Federalist allies. This thesis is pursued through all the major events of the period: from the rationale for the separation from Britain through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. The argument is well grounded in primary sources and conversant with the vast literature on the subjects it addresses, and this book stands as a competent expression of the state-centered perspective on the Founding. A major theoretical pillar of Coleman's argument, adopted from Michael Oakeshott by way of M. E. Bradford, is the distinction between a nomocratic and a teleocratic political order. A nomocratic order lays out processes and methods for addressing common concerns, for making decisions, and for [End Page 662] limiting power. A teleocratic order aims to achieve a specific philosophical objective or grand political project. This distinction is invoked throughout the book, though not in the depth of Oakeshott or Bradford. In practice, Federalists are condemned as teleocratic for wanting to centralize power in the federal government; Anti-Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans are valorized for wanting the opposite. Sometimes (and without explanation) the former term is rendered as "teleological." The reader is left to wonder whether this difference is intended to carry any meaning. Nevertheless, by use of this distinction, and by other indications, it is clear that the author has subtly but designedly aligned himself with Bradford's version of traditionalist-localist constitutional conservatism. Thus the revolt of 1776 is tendentiously described as "secession from the British Empire"; similarly, New Hampshire's ratification of the Constitution completed "the secession from the Articles of Confederation" (pp. 39, 127). Are we thus meant to regard that later and infamous attempted secession as just one more legitimate appeal to state sovereignty? Coleman offers a large clue in the conclusion's statement that it was Abraham Lincoln and the "Federalist-cum-Republican vision of the sovereignty of national government that emerged triumphant during the Civil War, and became enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment" (p. 237). The Civil War resulted in the "second American constitutional settlement that governs America today" (p. 238). To suggest that our modern Leviathan derived from the Federalists and Lincoln, rather than the Progressives and their heirs in the New Deal and Great Society, is to misunderstand the foundation and salvation of limited republican government in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the causes of its erosion in the twentieth century. It is quite debatable, often on the author's own evidence, whether the "constitutional settlement" of the book's title was ever truly settled. The book portrays Federalists as teleocratic backsliders, promise breakers on the topic of state sovereignty and the limits it was meant to impose on the federal government. But this interpretation overestimates the amount of theoretical clarity and agreement that existed. The desire for a stronger central government that could affect citizens directly and defend them adequately coexisted with the desire for limits on its reach in deference to the local authority of the states. Just how to balance these imperatives was not something agreed to once and for all and then deviously abandoned. It was worked out over time as the Constitution was interpreted and put into effect (two inseparable facets of the same process). Constitutional politics happened. Interests and principles clashed; institutions were designed...

The Politics of Vaccination. A Global History by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, and Paul Greenough, eds

Health & History ● 19/2 ● 2017 169 Inquiry’s findings is included in an appendix. The book’s photographs and diagrams (some of which explain CIS progression) provide additional context. As the first comprehensive account of the Cartwright Inquiry written by a ‘whistle-blower’ NWH doctor, Doctors in Denial fills an important gap in the historiography of this subject, enriching the existing literature and, importantly, helping to counter-balance recent attempts at academic revisionist history. JANE ADAMS UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, and Paul Greenough, eds, The Politics of Vaccination. A Global History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017). ISBN: 978-1-5261-1088-6 (HB). 343pp. Like the diseases it seeks to control, vaccination is a global phenomenon. If exposure to infectious diseases is the common lot of humanity, now the experience of vaccination also creates a homogenising bond. Vaccination is also a political act. It is often one of the few publicly supported forms of medical intervention and is often compulsory or nearly compulsory. It is a rite of passage for a citizen with a perceived public as well as private benefit. This global history of the politics of vaccination offers, through eleven case studies, rich insight on the world’s experience of vaccination, especially the complex relationship between medicine and the state. The case studies are grouped loosely under three headings: ‘Vaccination and National Identity’; ‘Nationality and Vaccine Production’; and ‘Vaccination, the Individual and Society’. A great strength of the book, though, is that all the studies address more than one theme. The case studies have geographical range, with studies on Bangladesh (Paul Greenough), Brazil (Jaime Benchimol), Eastern Europe (Dora Vargha), India (Niels Brimnes), Japan (Julia Yongue), Mexico (Ana María Carrillo), the Netherlands (Stuart Blume), Nigeria (Elisha Renne), South Korea (Eun Kyung Choi and YoungGyung Paik), Sweden (Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg), and the United Kingdom (Andrea Stöckl andAnna Smajdor). While a few of the studies begin in the late nineteenth century, all are primarily concerned with developments in the twentieth century, and many 170 BOOK REVIEWS of them include recent events and trends, not least the ‘Afterword’ (William Muraskin). The link between vaccination and state-building is explored, directly or indirectly, in all the studies. The connection was well established in Europe. Sweden mandated compulsory smallpox vaccination as early as 1816. Vargha’s study shows its new ideological resonance in Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War—the polio threat in the late 1950s raised the stakes dramatically not only in relation to the ‘health of the population and epidemic control, but also the strength and capability of the new communist system’(p.91). Smallpox vaccination in Mexico and Brazil began in colonial times, but its early success owed a great deal to colonial agency. From the late nineteenth century, the two countries set some store by vaccination and took some pride in contributing to the science and technology of this medical advancement. In post-Independence East Bengal there was a high degree of mobilisation in a campaign to suppress smallpox and cholera outbreaks that was informed by a resolve to show the British, Pakistan, and international administrations independent agency. Brazil played a leading role in seeking a vaccine for yellow fever; showed its capacity for heroic vaccination in 1975, immunising ten million people against hepatitis in five days; and received an award for eradicating wild poliovirus in 1994. In Japan and South Korea, too, vaccination played critical roles in forging a modern nation. After the ‘opening up’ of Japan in the late nineteenth century, the Japanese took up smallpox vaccination with alacrity and rapidly developed impressive expertise in the relevant sciences and technology. On the other hand, it showed caution in evaluating and accepting other vaccines. For South Korea, too, vaccination was part of an imaginary of progress, ultimately privileging the health of the future generation. If vaccination was to play its part in protecting the national body politic, there was the problem of vaccine supply. The larger European states,ofcourse,soughtadegreeofautonomyinproducingthevaccine they needed. In the wake of the Pasteur-Koch revolution, there was a wave of interest in new vaccine possibilities and European-style institutes were established around the world. In Brazil...

Progressivism in British Politics: Some Revisionist Themes

AbstractThis article argues that a return to the history of progressive political thought can help us to think afresh about what a renewed centre‐left politics might look like today. The article identifies some significant aspects of this history that attracted little attention in earlier debates over the British progressive tradition—in particular, debates about social ownership, nationalism and distributism. This revisionist history of British progressivism points the way towards some common ideological ground that could provide a starting point for a new dialogue between different ‘progressive’ political parties and interests.

The New Challenges of the Albanian Press and State Education on Early Twentieth Century

After the fall of the communist regime in Albania it has opened a great debate on the so-called re-writing of history, a complex process of deconstruction of the scientific methods of the regime and of the myths that have impregnated the Albanian historiography, that actually impede young Albanians to identify with their own historical and cultural roots, so important in facing the challenges of globalization identity. The purpose of this article is to identify the challenges of the press and of the Albanian Government, in 1912, to achieve the education of the masses. The main objective is to understand whether the Albanian press has stressed the importance of national identity formation and education of the masses, and also the importance of the legislative organization of national education in the early twentieth century. To achieve this purpose has been used desk research method. After the analysis of original documents and articles of the Albanian national archive, we can argue that 1. the Albanian state education story began after the publication in newspapers of three documents: Luigj Gurakuqis’ announcement of September 6, the circular of September 12 and “Article 29” civil administration law of 22 November 1913; 2. The Albanian press actually has propagandize the love for the country and for education, helping the government in achieving its main objective of state education. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n3s1p378

Advanced PlacementU.S.Historyand the Application of Social Justice

Recent changes to Advanced Placement U.S. History have sparked a national debate concerning goals and purposes of college level history courses. Critics suggest that the revisions result in a national curriculum that promotes a revisionist history perspective. Defenders claim that revisions are an important step in preparing students for 21st century citizenship. This document analysis identifies key differences between the 2010 and 2014 APU.S.History frameworks and considers changes made in 2015 by College Board in response to the national debate. The challenges of applying a social justice lens to curriculum are discussed, and suggestions are made concerning the application of procedural social justice to stimulate voluntary cooperative behavior on the part of members of groups, thereby enhancing true social justice for all members of society. A procedural justice lens is suggested to enhance commitment and cooperation among individuals, groups, and societies.

Revisionist histories, ‘future memories’: far-right memorialization practices in Hungary

ABSTRACTUsing two case studies under the Christian-conservative Orbán government, this essay explores how ‘future memories’ are being constructed and sustained by revisionist history writing about the history of communism, especially in instrumentalist memories using pedagogical instruments: the secondary literature curriculum and the Museum of Trianon. It argues that canonization revised by counter canonization is necessarily opening space for revisionism.

Typografie in mediahistorisch perspectief

Een themanummer over typografie lijkt opmerkelijk voor een wetenschappelijk tijdschrift voor mediageschiedenis. Immers, zo kun je je afvragen, behoort de studie van typografie niet tot de kunst- of designgeschiedenis of de studie van het boek? Wie de reguliere nummers van het Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis / Journal for Media History doorbladert ziet dat de meeste artikelen gaan over de traditionele media als film, televisie, de geschreven pers, of fotografie. Themanummers behandelen een scala aan zulke uiteenlopende onderwerpen als de monarchie, schandalen of de representatie van de natuur. In elk geval biedt een themanummer de uitdaging om de grenzen (van onderzoek of aandachtsvelden) op te zoeken. Interessant om te zien welke grenzen het voorliggende themanummer over typografie aanboort.

Colluding to Create the American Society for Public Administration and the Consequent Collateral Damage

The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) was founded in December 1939. This did not occur ex nihilo. Rather, it was the desired end-result of an elaborate and detailed collusion by some early public administration professionals including Louis Brownlow, Luther Gulick, and William Mosher. With patience and careful planning beginning in 1937, they designed a scenario that would, as the events they were catalyzing unfolded, undermine the Governmental Research Association (GRA) and provide justification for the new organization. This pre-birth campaign is often skipped over lightly in histories of ASPA. In particular, their collusion caused some serious collateral damage, destroying the academic career of University of Chicago doctoral candidate Norman Gill. This revisionist history explores the detailed maneuverings of the leaders of the nascent ASPA against GRA and how they, seemingly obliviously, wrecked the intended professional path of an innocent researcher who worked for them.