Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory
Issue 97, Winter 2007

Editors' Introduction
Greg Grandin and Thomas Miller Klubock

FEATURES

Knowledge, Experience, and South Africa's Scenarios of Forgiveness
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar

Truth, Justice, Reconciliation, and Impunity as Historical Themes: Chile, 1814-2006
Brian Loveman and Elizabeth Lira

Educating Citizens in Postwar Guatemala: Historical Memory, Genocide, and the Culture of Peace
Elizabeth Oglesby

REFLECTIONS

Introduction: A U.S. Truth Commission?
Greg Grandin and Thomas Miller Klubock

A Massacre Survivor Reflects on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Sally Avery Bermanzohn

Behind the Veil
Paul Ortiz

The Winter Soldier Hearings
John J. Fitzgerald

TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY

Dictatorship and Human Rights: The Politics of Memory
Felipe Agüero

Teaching Truth Commissions
Charles F. Walker

(RE)VIEWS

The Elusive Pursuit of Truth and Justice: A Review Essay; History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa; Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa; Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions; Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth Commission in South Africa.; Truth Commissions and Courts: The Tension between Criminal Justice and the Search for Truth; The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-apartheid State
Mary Nolan
Review of:
Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa. New York: Three Rivers, 2000.
Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Deborah Posel and Graeme Simpson, eds., Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2002.
Fiona C. Ross, Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth Commission in South Africa. London: Pluto, 2003.
William A. Schabas and Shane Darcy, eds., Truth Commissions and Courts: The Tension between Criminal Justice and the Search for Truth. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 2004.
Richard A. Wilson, The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-apartheid State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Many Are Guilty, Few Are Indicted; In My Country
Grant Farred
Review of:
In My Country, directed by John Boorman. Sony Pictures Classics, 2004.

The 9/11 Commission Report
Kim Phillips-Fein
Review of:
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. New York: Norton, 2004.

The Abusable Past
R.J. Lambrose

Notes on Contributors

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