The team at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is happy to speak with reporters working on stories related to history, transitional justice, memorialization, museums, and memory initiatives. We are frequently consulted and quoted in national and local outlets and interviewed on podcasts and radio segments. To get in touch, please email Ashley Nelson, the Communications Director at anelson@sitesofconscience.org.
At The Gambia’s Memory House, victims rewrite Jammeh-era history
May 21, 2022
A man found a mysterious cross in an attic. The local history museum said no thanks
May 12, 2022
Transformational Sites of
Conscience: Heritage Sites as
Catalysts for Action
January 24, 2022
Moscow’s Memory Wars: Putin seeks to whitewash Russia’s Stalinist past
January 15, 2022
CAN FOUR-DAY WORKWEEKS HELP WOMEN? MORE COMPANIES ARE TRYING IT OUT.
UNESCO: World Heritage, Multiple Memories
February 16, 2021
The Free Lance-Star: Outside study calls for more understanding, inclusiveness in Fredericksburg
December 11, 2020
Smithsonian Magazine: Fredericksburg’s Slave Auction Block Will Be Moved to a Museum
September 30, 2020
Hidden City: Six Perspectives on Historic Monuments and the Battle Over Civic Space
September 29, 2020
National Geographic: Historic Interpreters Share their Sides of the Story
September 24, 2020
Curator the Museum Journal: The Movement for Memory: Statements of Solidarity from Sites of Conscience
September 04, 2020
Politico: Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
August 16, 2020
TIME Magazine: Confederate Monuments and Other Disputed Memorials Have Come Down in Cities Across America. What Should Take Their Place?
July 28, 2020
NPR: How America Might Reconcile Its Racist Past
July 15, 2020
Eagle News: Zoom Panel Discussion Explores the Meaning, Place of Monuments
June 29, 2020
National Geographic: Travels: Pasaje Begoña, El Stonewall de España está en Torremolinos
June 27, 2020
CNN: A Virginia City Finally Removed its 800-pound Slave Auction Block After Years of Deliberation
June 8, 2020
The Washington Post: After a Long Debate, Fredericksburg, VA., Finally Removes a Slave Auction Block From Downtown
June 6, 2020
Yes Magazine: Truth and Reconciliation For Lynching Victims and Their Families
February 03, 2020
El Espectador: Centro Nacional de Memoria sale de la red internacional de Sitios de Consciencia
Time: Cultural Heritage Reminds Us Of Our Shared Humanity. That’s Why Threats Against Them Are So Dangerous.
January 10, 2020
The Washington Post: Border Patrol Museum Visitors Want to Talk Current Events. The Staff Doesn’t.
January 2, 2020
Worldwide, The Sites of Conscience Are Speaking Loudly of The Horrors of Yesterday
December 15, 2019
The Post and Courier: Two Charleston Sites Rooted in Slavery Accepted into Global Coalition for Historic Education
November 20, 2019.
National Trust for Historic Preservation 2019 Louise Du Pont Crowninshield Award: Ruth J. Abram
October 11, 2019.
The Washington Post: What South Africa Can Teach the U.S. About Reparations
By Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman, Senior Director of the Global Transitional Justice Initiative at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
June 25, 2019
The New York Times: A Former Prison Breaks From the System That Built It
March 12, 2019
The Atlantic: Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum
March 17, 2019
BBC Radio: Collecting the Troubles at the Ulster Museum
November 27, 2018
Dan Snow’s History Hit Sites of Conscience with Linda Norris
August 30, 2018
The Atlantic
The Desperate Search for Lebanon’s Mass Graves
April 22, 2018
The New York Times
Documenting US Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile
October 14, 2017
BuzzFeed The Whitney Plantation Is The Only Confederate Monument We Should Keep
August 21, 2017
Teen Vogue
These Teens Are Working To End Modern Slavery
July 20, 2017
The Chicago Reader
The National Public Housing Museum’s Long Journey Home
July 5, 2017
The New York Times Founder of Coalition Member, the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, is Denied Political Asylum
June 23, 2017
NPR
A Researcher Reconnects with Her Ancestors’ Slave Past at Madison’s Estate
March 28, 2017
NPR
Joshua Tree: Planning For The Future Of A Park Where The Trees Have One Name
August 2, 2016
The Portland Press Herald
Abbe Museum’s new exhibition tells difficult Native American stories
May 22, 2016
BBC News
Inside decaying US prison, former inmates are guides
May 11, 2016
The Chicago Tribune
Chicago National Public Housing Museum Aims for the Conscience
May 6, 2016
The Washington Post
African-American Museum Designed with Emotions in Mind
April 17, 2016
NPR
The Parents Circle: Israeli, Palestinian Parents Share Their Painful Stories Of Loss
September 13, 2014
