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Voices In Time

1766 | Lincolnshire

The Great Healer

Thomas Paine praises forgetting.More

Voices In Time

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Guide for the Perplexed

Facebook regurgitates the contextless past.More

Voices In Time

1730 | Hinton

Search Engine

Richard Grey tries to remember what he’s learned.More

Voices In Time

1907 | Cambridge, MA

All Rise

Hugo Münsterberg on the unreliability of memories.More

Voices In Time

1658 | Norwich

Oblivion

Thomas Browne gets lost in time.More

Voices In Time

1998 | Cape Town

What We Choose to Know

Desmond Tutu on what makes reconciliation possible.More

Voices In Time

1837 | London

Exhumed and Exhaled

Charles Babbage breathes in the past.More

Voices In Time

c. 1190 | England

Caesar Lives

Walter Map leaves room for the present.More

Voices In Time

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?More

Voices In Time

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Last In, First Out

William James is against cramming.More

Voices In Time

1857 | Mississippi River

Sales Pitch

Herman Melville sees an unremembered visage.More

Voices In Time

c. 1885 | Polatsk

Post-Impressionism

Mary Antin looks back on her childhood.More

Voices In Time

1944 | New York City

Lost Treasure

Isaac Bashevis Singer calls for the preservation of Yiddish.More

Voices In Time

1869 | Paris

Looking Back

Gustave Flaubert engineers a joint reverie.More

Voices In Time

1871 | Arlington, VA

The Truth Is Marching On

Frederick Douglass remembers the soldiers who died to end slavery.More

Voices In Time

1903 | New York City

All Ideas Are Secondhand

Mark Twain reassures a young Helen Keller.More

Voices In Time

1890 | London

Product Placement

A call to return the Parthenon Marbles.More

Voices In Time

1817 | Highgate

Speak, Memory

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on an inexplicable autodidact.More

Voices In Time

1762 | Montmorency

Elastic Smarts

Rousseau exercises young minds.More

Voices In Time

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

The Past Also Rises

George Eliot finds a character lost in regret.More

Voices In Time

1857 | Paris

Here Lies the Past

Charles Baudelaire opens the vault.More

Voices In Time

1345 | Durham

Bibliophile

Richard de Bury on the infinite treasure of books.More

Voices In Time

1751 | London

Test of Time

Samuel Johnson judges the outdated books of seasons past.More

Voices In Time

1929 | Vienna

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

Meeting a prodigious memory.More

Voices In Time

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Under Oath

A witness for Vanzetti’s defense.More

Voices In Time

2017 | New Orleans

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

Revising how America remembers its past.More

Voices In Time

c. 95 | Rome

Photographic Memory

Quintilian puts memory in its place.More

Voices In Time

1996 | San Francisco

Document Not Found

Brewster Kahle wants to archive the internet.More

Voices In Time

1896 | Paris

Tense and Sensibility

Henri Bergson on “pure memory.”More

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