Returning and Sharing Memories”. Genesi e sviluppo di un progetto per l’uso del “passato comune” italo-etiope (1935-1941)

Abstract. This paper introduces a pilot project aiming at returning Ethiopian people the historical memories about the Italian ephemeral “Empire” in the Horn of Africa (1935-1941). The “conquerors” took away a lot of historical documents and images, taking advantage of their technological superiority. For instance, unlike Ethiopians, many Italian soldiers had cameras, which were popular and affordable back then. Thanks to technology now we can duplicate documents – producing exact copies of originals – without displacing them or changing ownership.Our starting point is to duplicate the visual memories collected in Modena and donate them to Addis Ababa University, making them available to researchers and students. Our aim is approaching colonialist studies in a different way, sharing the historical memories with the former enemies, encouraging a joint study of Ethiopia and Italy’s common past. Our hope is to create a lean working method that can be used by others, able to stimulate similar initiatives not only from private people but also from the Italian public archives and institutionsItalian colonialism; photographic sources; Ethiopia; Modena

The rise of Public History: an international perspective

This article explores the birth and development of public history and presents the different criteria of its internationalization from the 1970s to the more recent creation of the International Federation of Public History. Based mostly on North America and Europe, the international perspective sets the development of public history in the United States into a broader context of debates about the changing role of historians. While public history was mostly perceived in the 1980s as the application – through consulting – of history to present- day issues, the more recent internationalization is made of a variety of local and national approaches to the field

La campagna etiopica del caporale Fantoni

Analisi del memoriale e del diario fotografico del caporale Fantoni riguardo alla sua partecipazione alla conquista dell'Etiopi

George Kennan e la difficile arte del "contenimento"

un'analisi dell'elaborazione e dell'applicazione iniziale della strategia del contenimento nei primi anni della guerra fredd

Gli Stati Uniti e l'unità europea, 1940-1950. Percorsi di un'idea

la storia delle origini dell'integrazione europea, dei suoi padri fondatori e del ruolo avuto dagli Stati Uniti in questo processo storic