Renaming Ottawa’s Trump Avenue is part of a long history of cities engaging in “toponymic diplomacy.”
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By celebrating our authors — especially on Canada Day — we honour their role in shaping, illuminating, and preserving our unique Canadian culture.
While most Australians agree Anzac Day is an important national occasion, far fewer actually engage in related activities.
Australia has remembered the Anzacs in many ways – but some memorials toe a fine line between form and function.
There were several times in Swapo’s exile history when internal critics were silenced.
Commemoration is also about confronting the complex legacy of Japan’s role in the second world war.
Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.
Packed with newspaper clippings, drawings and handwritten reflections, WI community scrapbooks provide a glimpse into how mourning unfolded across rural England.
Students renaming campus buildings during ongoing protests follows years of campus renaming controversies. A study of campus naming policies proposes how to make naming more inclusive.
How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
These novels can expand your encounters with war and commemoration.
History is not being destroyed but the way people remember is being changed.
The Russian embassy in Vilnius now sits on Ukrainian Heroes’ Street (Ukrainos Didvyrių g.), a direct response to the war.
Yom HaShoah is a day to commemorate the murder of 6 million Jews – but also their lives. Yizker bikher books lovingly document Jewish communities across Europe.
For some military members, a hillside in California embodies the sacrifices of serving.
The prime minister calls it “our most sacred day”, but numbers at Anzac Day dawn services fell by 70% from 2015-2019.
When it comes to anniversaries we should not just celebrate the good but also take stock of the bad.
The crisis of statehood and citizenship confronting Nigeria can only be tackled by committed work around political justice.
Four years after the violent attack on worshippers at Québec City’s central mosque, the federal government has said it will honour the victims with a national day of remembrance.
It might have many critics but the statue tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft succeeds in its abstract commemoration of the feminist. Public sculptures could learn from it
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