The application of Critical Theory to
history after 1900—examining how recent
history is constructed, how it serves contemporary
politics, and what's at stake in its telling. Critical Theory of Post-1900 History asks: Who writes the history of the recent past? How do contemporary power relations shape what's remembered and what's forgotten? How are histories of trauma, revolution, and resistance told—and by whom? Drawing on memory studies and critical historiography, it insists that post-1900 history is never just the past—it's the present arguing about itself through stories of what just happened.
"We know what happened, we were there, they say. Critical Theory of Post-1900
History asks: do we?
Memory is selective, contested. The same events are remembered differently by victors and victims. Post-1900
history isn't settled; it's fought over. Critical theory insists on asking: whose memory counts, and whose is erased—and what does that tell us about power today?"