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President Obama visits Hiroshima; a notorious crime is revisited; and Ukraine rewrites its past. How what we choose to remember shapes our world. (episode)
The US and Japan have, understandably, very different narratives about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The origins of the ubiquitous, insufferable, all-purpose "Keep Calm and Carry On" slogan.
The brother of Kitty Genovese tracks down some of the witnesses to his sister's infamous death in an attempt to get the whole story of her life.
With the help of new "de-communization" laws, the head of Ukraine's Institute of National Memory is doing everything he can to erase certain chapters in Ukraine's past.
"History is about the past. Memory is about how we use the past for the purposes of the present."