This volume brings together distinguished scholars to address broad societal claims about the surge in populist nationalism in the scholarly literature on collective memory. Through an examination of conceptual claims and empirical evidence in the collective memory literature, this book offers a multidisciplinary, modern approach to studying these persistent challenges.

Henry L. Roediger III is a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies human learning and memory, both in individual and in groups (collective memory). He is the coauthor of Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Remembering. Roediger is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
James V. Wertsch is a professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Global Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Education, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has published numerous books at the intersection of language, thought, culture, national memory, and narrative, including How Nations Remember.