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Fictional Diaries and Archives

My humanities moment happened when I read a book for school written in the form of a diary. Even though it was fiction, it showed me how diaries…

The Fish on Marchmont Street

I live and teach in Madison, Wisconsin, but I usually spend my spring break on a research trip in London, England. On a cold and drizzly day in…

The “Infinitely Human”: Life Writings, Locks of Hair and Lived History

Like fellow humanists, I struggled to pick a single moment to describe and share with you. However, while delving into my corpus (life writings – mostly diaries, autobiographies…

Giving Value and Thought to the Imaginary

Transcript My name is Katelyn Campbell, and I’m a PhD student in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And for my humanities moment,…

First Archival Visit

I hope I am not the only person who struggled to narrow their moment to a single episode. I am grateful for the prompt, though; in a summer…

“Personal Freedom Was Therefore Not Existent”

The title of my moment comes from a quote on page 55 of Watson and Potter’s book, Low-Cost Housing in Barbados: Evolution or Social Revolution? My humanities moment…