Fall 2009

An Introduction

Memento [film]
Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English)

The Biological Foundations of Short Term and Long Term Memory
Dr. Erin Zimmer (Biology)

National Museums and Sites of Memory: Divided Memory and the Holocaust in Vilnius, Lithuania
Dr. Edna Kantorovitz Carter Southard (Earlham College)

Remembering, Reproduction, and Theological Value: Religious art of Mexiccan immigrants in New Mexico
Dr. Dominic Colonna (Theology)

Dark City [film]
Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English)

El Dia de los Muertos: A sophisticated Pre-literate Use of Family Memories for Social Bonding and Treatment of Grief
Dr. John Greenwood (Psychology)

Possible Worlds [film]
Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English)

Geographical Memory: The 25th anniversary of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Historic Corridor
Dr. Dennis Cremin (History)

The Reliability of Oral History: the Memory of the African American Community
Dr. Mark Schultz (History)

Memory in Collaboration: Investigations into Poetry as a Memorializing and Communal Act
Dr. Jackie White (English)
Dr. Simone Muench (English)

Geographical Memory:

The 25th anniversary of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Historic Corridor

November 12, 2009

From a historical perspective, the creation of the Illinois and Michigan Canal NHC represents historical revisionism that placed geography and the history of waterborne transportation at the center of local consciousness. The NHC concept has become a nation trend that recovers a sense of place in the local and national context. Cremin used oral history materials in his investigation of the nation’s first National Heritage Corridor.

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Dennis Cremin Dennis H. Cremin, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in history from Loyola University of Chicago. He is an associate professor of history at Lewis University and director of the history center. An award winning author and exhibit curator, his research focuses is in urban history with a particular interest in landscape history.


Additional Resources:

Lewis University Department of History

History Center