Please read the articles by Klein (confederate monuments), Gallant and Rhea (Holocaust commemorations), and Liu and Szpunar (psychological background; you can focus on the sections I highlighted and skim through the rest).

Is there a difference between collective memory and history (why yes, why no, etc.)?

Should we cancel Thomas Jefferson? Woodrow Wilson? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/Links to an external site.

What public commemorations not currently practiced do you think the USA should institute in order to foster important collective memory, and what form do you think that commemoration should take?