Cindy Postma
Assistant Professor of History
Department of History,
King's College
WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA 18711
Hafey Marian 313
Tel: (570) 208-5900, ext. 5488
email:
cindypostma@kings.edu
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WHY MY STUDENTS TAKE HISTORY COURSES "It's a requirement, but history sometimes surprises me." (MV) "I like history." (LR) _______________________________________________________________________________ "Memory is a complex phenomenon that reaches far beyond what normally constitutes a historian's archives, for memory is much more than what the mind can remember or what objects can help us document about the past. It is also what we do not always consciously know that we remember until something actually , as the saying goes, jogs our memory. Any there remains the question, so much discussed these days ... of what people do not even wish to remember, the forgetting that comes to our aid in dealing with pain and unpleasantness in life. Memory, then, is far more complicated than what historians can recover, and it poses ethical challenges to the investigator-historian who approaches the past with one injunction: Tell me all.... 'Eastern' nationalism...has appeared among 'peoples recently drawn into a civilisation [sic] hitherto alien to them, and whose ancestral cultures are not adapted to success and excellence by these cosmopliotan and increasingly dominant standards'. They too have measured the backwardness of their nations in terms of certain global standards set by the advanced nations of Western Europe." Dipesh Chakvabarty. Habitations of Modernity. (2002) ________________________________________________________________________________ Previous Years' Courses
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