1. See Susan Neiman, “Victims and Heroes,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (University of Utah Press, 2012).
2. William James, “Oration,” Essays in Religion and Morality (Harvard University Press, 1982), pp. 65–66, italics added.
3. Ibid., p. 66.
4. Ibid., p. 67.
5. Ibid., p. 66.
6. Ibid., p. 73.
7. Birgit Schwelling, “Gedenken im Nachkrieg. Die ‘Friedland-Gedächtnisstätte,’” in Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, 2008.
8. See “Black and Unarmed,” Washington Post, August 8, 2015.
9. See Susan Neiman, Widerstand der Vernunft: Ein Manifest in postfaktischen Zeiten (Benevento, 2017).
10. See Aaron Williams, “Hate Crimes Rose the Day After Trump Was Elected, FBI Data Shows,” Washington Post, March 23, 2018, and The Independent, July 17, 2017.
11. See Mischa Gabowitsch, “Sites of Practice,” talk at Einstein Forum conference Imagine Solidarity!, June 17, 2017.
12. Directive No. 30, Official Gazette of the Control Council for Germany, Nr. 7, May 31, 1946.
13. James Meredith, with William Doyle, A Mission from God (Atria Books, 2012), p. 6.
14. Jan Philipp Reemtsma, “Wozu Gedenkstätten?,” Politik und Zeitgeschichte, June 21, 2010.
15. Ibid., p. 4.
16. Ibid., p. 5.
17. Ibid., p. 9.
18. See Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2015 [revised edition]).
19. See Lorraine Daston, “When Science Went Modern—and Why,” talk at Einstein Forum conference Fetishizing Science, June 11, 2016.
20. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, trans. Adrian Collins (Digireads, 2009), p. 122.
21. G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Lectures on Philosophy of History, trans. Hugh Barr Nisbet (Cambridge, 1975), p. 43.
22. Buchenwald: Ausgrenzung und Gewalt (Wallstein Verlag, 2016), p. 183.
23. Barack Obama, in Crain’s Chicago Business, December 6, 2017.
24. See Seth Cagin and Philip Dray, We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi (PublicAffairs, 2006).
25. Howard Ball, Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen (University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 10.
26. See Sally Belfrage, Freedom Summer (University Press of Virginia, 1990).
27. Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 279.
28. Ibid., p. 134.
29. Ibid., p. 362.
30. Ibid., p. 390.
31. Quoted in Carol V. R. George, One Mississippi, Two Mississippi (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 29.
32. See ibid.
33. See ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 211.
35. Ball, Justice in Mississippi, p. 12.
36. Ibid., pp. 203–204.
37. Ibid., p. 27.
38. Ibid., p. 26.
39. Mitch Landrieu, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History (Viking, 2018), pp. 217–18.