So much of art has been inspired by the impulse to remember those who've died. Think of Mount Rushmore, or Mozart’s Requiem. Studio 360's Kurt Andersen has been thinking about the way we memorialize now.

Karal Ann Marling, an American Studies professor, looks at the phenomenon of memorial souvenirs. Produced by Leital Molad.

Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently The Painted Bed and Without: Poems, which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Donald Hall has won the National book Critics Circle Award, two Guggenheim fellowships, and the Ruth ...

In classical music, the music can give us the grandeur and gravity we crave, and the words can bring it down to earth, closer to the specifics of what we're trying to recall. Sara Fishko looks at memory, music and the art of capturing a profound moment in time.

In the Northwest, native people carve totem poles to remember great figures in Native culture, or commemorate a clan victory. But a totem pole can also be created to remember darker things. A look at a particular totem pole and the people trying to preserve what's left of it. Produced ...

The typical Irish wake is a celebration of the way a person joked and ate and drank and lived. A pair of Irish-American singers, Austin Hughes and his father, Austin Sr., sing Finnegan's Wake — a traditional tune that came long before the book by the same name by ...