Storytelling

Widows of War Living Memorial Website
A place where widows of all armed conflicts can record and share their stories with people throughout the world in an effort to gain new perspectives on war and conflict and celebrate women as an unprecedented force for peace.

Remembrance: Reflections, Memories, and Images of Vietnam Past
"Remembrance" is an online collection of galleries containing imagery, stories, poems, songs, maps and narratives from or about the Vietnam War era.

Faces of War
An International Education and Resource Network (I*Earn) and Global Classroom project, this site is dedicated to documenting the effects of wars and global conflict from a young person’s perspective.

The Sonic Memorial
A September 11 memorial led by NPR's Lost & Found Sound, The Sonic Memorial Project is a cross-media collaboration of more than 50 independent radio and new media producers, artists, historians, and people from around the world who have contributed personal and archival recordings.

Memorials

Vietnam War Memorials
An extensive listing and links to online information on Vietnam War memorials paying tribute to the soldiers and civilians who died and the families and loved ones they left behind.

Art 21: Maya Lin
From the PBS art:21 series, this profile of Maya Lin, the artist who created the Vietnam War Memorial, includes a look at Lin’s approach to memorials.

Stanford Presidential Lectures: Maya Lin
The lecture website for Maya Lin’s November 2002 speaking engagement at the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts. Includes a profile of Lin, links to selected art, and a bibliography.

Memorial Walls
Online gallery documenting a new form of urban public art that arose in response to countless tragic and untimely deaths. Young graffiti artists create murals commemorating the lives of victims of violence.

Dia de los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a three-day Mexican holiday to honor and celebrate loved ones who have died. Read about the indigenous roots and customs of this holiday and browse and online gallery of Dia de los Muertos ofrendas (altars) and shrines.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Founded in 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is an ongoing memorial for those who had died of AIDS. Portions of the Quilt are constantly on display around the U.S. The Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with its messages of remembrance, awareness and hope.

The Civil Rights Memorial at the Museum of Tolerance
Designed in 1989 by Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam War Memorial, the memorial represents what its designer calls a “collective memory of history.” Maya Lin sought a design that would honor movement heroes and become a vehicle for education and reflection.

“Inventing and Invoking Tradition in Holocaust Memorials”
An essay about the cultural meaning of public memorialization, written by Simon Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Folklore and American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg.

“Spontaneous Shrines: A Modern Response to Tragedy and Disaster”
An overview of the “communal and spontaneous” practice of cybershrine-making in an attempt to help put this new grieving ritual into a broader context. Written by Sylvia Grider, Ph.D. of Texas A& M University.

Scruggs, Jan C. and Swerdlow, Joel L., To Heal a Nation: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, New York, Harper & Row, 1985.