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How what we choose to remember shapes our world. (episode)
This year, many have looked to history to explain current political events. Historian Rick Perlstein says that they're getting it all wrong.
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 retrieve 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."