The Fine Print: Stopping Stones, slavery, and the radical re-telling of American history

Historic New England, with inspiration from the Stolpersteine memorials in Europe that honor victims of the Nazi regime, has a different mission: immortalize formerly enslaved people, too often voiceless and forgotten, as a way of reminding New England (and America) where we’ve been and how far we have still to go.​
It is in its retelling that history becomes part of public memory—public memory is the successful transformation of history from a static record into a dynamic narrative that circulates among people in the present moment.