When I was young, my mom had the foresight to ask my grandparents to fill out a memory book for me. Now an heirloom, the book captured the details of their childhoods and their lives — those precious ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

Growing up, Jane Ziegelman often heard stories about the old country from family members gathered at her grandmother’s home in Queens, N.Y. In time young Jane would become familiar with many of the ...

Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections. By Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S. Marcus is the author of “Pictured Worlds” and a curator of exhibitions, including ...