At the crossroads of cultural history and military history, this book offers several case studies as well as general reflections on the memory of battles as it is inscribed, in particular, in the places where they happened.
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Mémoires et usages des champs de bataille, du XVIe siècle à nos jours
Catherine Denys, Benjamin Deruelle
1918: the guns fall silent at last. However, there is nothing evident about coming out of the war. Whilst some long for a return to normality, others hope for a new future. These different aspirations and the continuous traces of the conflict still present complicate the advent of a "post-war world" which has yet to be defined.
Matthieu de Oliveira, Marie Derrien
The Ascq killing of April 1, 1944 left a deep mark on the memory and history of WWII in the North France. It remains today an issue of memorial transmission that school history teaching cannot ignore.
Enseigner un traumatisme de l'histoire
Jérôme Krop, Corinne Vezirian
A monumental religious building, the cathedral represents a spiritual, heritage, cultural and political symbol. This is why, in times of war, it's confronted with the effects and violence of war.
Xavier Boniface, Louise Dessaivre
Human memories – those of our societies, collective or individual memories – are changing in a world in great acceleration and production of new knowledge. Can these plural memories preserve everything, be at the same time witnesses, memories, resources and reflections of our time in a world itself in transformation?
Moïse Déro
