Memory Wars brings you the latest work of reporter Mallory Noe-Payne.The poll tax. Literacy tests. Terror at the ballot box. All of these are voter suppression methods synonymous with the Jim Crow South.But today, in 2023, a vestige of Jim

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Feed Drop: A Critical Moment

Nov 17th, 2022 1h

Memory Wars brings you a special episode from Louisville Public Media.Many American teachers and students say it’s time to learn about our country’s legacy of racism. But some conservatives are calling these lessons indoctrination. They’ve co

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Live Event: Myths from Two Sides of the Atlantic

Oct 13th, 2022 1h 7m

Join Fulbright Young Journalist Award winner, Mallory Noe-Payne and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Paul Williams for a special live recording of this RadioIQ and PRX history podcast at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.

Part 6: Volker's Story

Aug 4th, 2022 51m 37s

How does a society create meaningful places of encounter? Spaces where you just can't look away from the past? On the final episode of Memory Wars, we go back to Germany one last time to explore the conflict and contestation over space. All wit

Part 5: Mallory's Story

Jul 21st, 2022 50m 42s

Watching how Haley and Charlotte have explored and confronted their own histories made me think maybe it’s time to face up to my own ancestry. Back home in Virginia, the search yields some shocking truths. Once we accept culpability for a sinf

Part 4: Charlotte's Story

Jul 7th, 2022 45m 41s

When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ancestor had done, at a time when an entire country was learning to change its perspective. How d

Part 3: Haley's Story

Jun 23rd, 2022 50m 24s

Haley’s ancestors were Holocaust survivors. But she’s chosen to return to Germany anyway. We follow her journey to reclaim the things stolen from her family — an identity and a homeland. Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma

Part 2: The Two Reconstructions

Jun 9th, 2022 44m 12s

We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstructions, in two different countries, turn out so differently?

Part 1: A Prologue

Jun 9th, 2022 13m 26s

If you’re just starting on Memory Wars, try starting here. We’ll tell you how this is going to work and what to expect as you listen along.A production of RADIO IQ, distributed by PRX. You can show your appreciation for innovative projects li

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Introducing: Memory Wars

May 25th, 2022 2m 53s

Memory Wars is a six-part series about how Germany has confronted its horrific past and whether America could ever do the same. Public radio reporter Mallory Noe-Payne spent years covering policy and politics in Richmond, Virginia — the former

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