NB: This is simply a very select, representative bibliography on the subject of history and memory (some pertaining to the classical period, some to the modern period). For bibliographies on the classical historians we’ll be reading consult, for starters, the course texts (the Penguins).
Assmann, J. (1997) Moses the Egyptian. The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Cambridge, MA
Blum, H. (1969) Die antike Mnemotechnik. Hildesheim
Burke, P. (1989) 'History as Social Memory', in Memory. History, Culture and the Mind, T. Butler (ed.), 97-113. Blackwell
Carruthers, M. (1990) The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge
Connerton, P. (1989) How Societies Remember. Cambridge
Davis, N.Z. and Starn, R. (1989) ‘Introduction’. Representations 0.26: 1-6
Edwards, C. (1996) Writing Rome. Cambridge
Farrell, J. (1997) 'The Phenomenology of Memory in Roman Culture', CJ 92.4: 373-83
Fentress, J. and Wickham, C. (1992) Social Memory. Blackwell
Flower, H. (1996) Ancestor masks and aristocratic power in Roman culture. Oxford
Gedi, N. and Elam, Y. (1996) ‘Collective Memory – What is it?’, History and Memory 8.1:30-50
Halbwachs, M. (1992) On Collective Memory, trans. L.A. Coser. Chicago
Hedrick, C.W. (2000) History and Silence. Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. Austin
Hobsbawm, E. (1997) On History. New York
Holtorf, C. (2000) Monumental Past. Diss. Wales 1998. published electronically: http://citdpress.utsc.utoronto.ca/holtorf/2.0.html
Hutton, P. (1993) History as an Art of Memory. Hanover and London
Jaeger, M. (1997) Livy’s Written Rome. Ann Arbor
Le Goff, J. (1992) History and Memory, trans. S. Rendall and E. Claman. New York
Loraux, N. (1997) La cite divisée. L’oubli dans la mémoire d’Athènes. Paris
Lowenthal, D. (1985) The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge
McConkey, J. (ed.) (1996) The Anatomy of Memory. An Anthology. Oxford
Nora, P. (1984) Les Lieux de Mémoire. Vol. 1. Paris
Roth, M. (1994) ‘We Are What We Remember (and Forget)’, Tikkun 9.6: 41-42, 91.
(1995) The Ironist’s Cage. Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History. New York
Shrimpton, G. (1997) History and Memory in Ancient Greece. Montreal
Small, J. Penny and J. Tatum (1995) 'Memory and the Study of Classical Antiquity', Helios 22.2: 149-77
Small, J. Penny (1997) Wax tablets of the mind: cognitive studies of memory and literacy in classical antiquity. Routledge
Terdiman, R. (1993) Present Past. Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Ithaca and London
Varner, E.R. (2001) ‘Portraits, Plots, and Politics; Damnatio Memoriae and the Images of Imperial Women’, MAAR 46:41-93
Weinrich, H. (20003) Lethe. Kunst und Kritik des Vergessens. Munich
Wolpert, A. (2002) Remembering defeat: Civil War and civic memory in Ancient Athens. Baltimore
Yates, F.A. (1966) The Art of Memory. Chicago
Yoneyama, L. (1999) Hiroshima Traces. Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory. Berkeley
Young, J. (1993) The Texture of Memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning in Europe, Israel, and America. New Haven