..., 2000. Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Deborah Posel and Graeme Simpson, eds., Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

...Kanishka Goonewardena 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 PUBLIC HISTORY Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 Kanishka Goonewardena Sri Lanka in Crisis The doomed competition organized in...

... truth commission but added the term reconciliation to the commis- sion’s title — and implicitly to its objectives — and changed the composition from seven to twelve commissioners and one observer.22 These additions might be seen as an ambivalent effort to broaden his support base by courting both...

...Greg Grandin; Thomas Miller Klubock MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 REFLECTIONS Introduction: A U.S. Truth Commission? The United States, enjoying over two centuries of nearly uninterrupted institu- tional stability and constitutional rule, has never been...

.... On June 12, 2004, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formally seated in a ceremony attended by five hundred people. The commissioners and staff put out a call for statements and received testimony from 150 people (55 of these individuals gave statements at public hearings...

...Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States . New York: Norton, 2004. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 (RE)VIEWS The 9/11 Commission Report Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11...

...Alice Kessler-Harris Copyright © April 1986 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1986 HISTORY ON TRIAL Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and...

...Charles F. Walker MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Teaching Truth Commissions Charles F. Walker My interest in human rights and history led me to teach an undergraduate history seminar on truth commissions. I had followed the...

... 1978 US Civil Rights Commission event featuring comprehensive critiques of the traditional family, (2) the 1980 conservation reaction to critiques of the traditional family in Senate debates, (3) a Reagan administration report about domestic violence that glorified the traditional family and blamed...

... date back at least to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s inquiry into crimes against civilians commit- ted during the 1912 and 1913 Balkan Wars, but the modern truth commission form has a much more recent genesis, primarily associated with what is often called Latin America’s...

... range, execution style. The police version differed from these testimonies that attested to the brutality and callousness of the security personnel. Ten years later, Zenzile Khoisan, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) officer in charge of the investigation, wrote in his report to the...

... corriendo el velo del olvido, drawing the veil of oblivion) with pardons or amnesties, and for the sake of politi- cal regrouping, is the Chilean story and constitutes, in many ways, the abbreviated political history of Chile itself. In this sense, the Chilean National Commission on Truth and...

... would like to see “a kind of permanent World’s Fair,” while other commissioners envision “an ethnic Williamsburg.”b Park Service and Centennial Commission representatives seem to agree that commercial development should be incorporated into the public areas on the northern half of the island...

... take Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator known for cruelty and violence, for the sentimental type. But Posner credits Ruby's story, certified by the Warren Commission, that he was actuated solely by grief at his President's death (Ruby's 176 /RADICAL HISTORY REV1EW shouted words as he...

...Elizabeth Oglesby MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 Educating Citizens in Postwar Guatemala: Historical Memory, Genocide, and the Culture of Peace Elizabeth Oglesby On February 25, 1999, the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarifica- tion...

.... All truth and reconciliation commissions, from those in Bolivia to those in East Timor, from the ones in Chile and Argentina to the ones in South Africa, are gov- erned by the logic of political temporality. These commissions want to determine the historical “truth” of the time before: the now...

... officially controlled Worcester’s parks, as they did the factories and most major political offices. In the PARKS AND PLAY IN WORCESTER 33 park system, this elite was represented by Edward Winslow Lincoln, the Secretary and Chairman of the Parks Commission for most of the...

...- sylvania’s Philadelphia Social History Project. He discusses his own in- volvement with public history in a recent article co-authored with Dorothy L. Watts in Znternational Journal of Oral History (June 1980). HOWARD GREEN works for the New Jersey Historical Commission. He is...

...,” in broad terms in the hope of accessing an expanding body of interdisciplinary scholarship drawing on performance analysis. The material offered ranges widely over space, time, subject, and discipline: Truth commissions in Peru and exhibitions in Atlanta; civic space and narratives of economic...

... Parker's egregious docudrama, Mississippi Burning (1988), relief may be found in six dusty filing cabinets now sealed in a vault belonging to the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History. The cabinets hold the files of the now defunct Sovereignty Commission, a government organ created...