Tag: Historians

The Power of Oral History

I think I’ve always been an oral historian, but I didn’t always know to call myself one. When I was a young kid, I used to spend countless…

The Day I Decided to Major in History

Graduate student Justina Licata explains how a junior high school teacher’s passion and influence led her to embrace the study of history as a lifelong vocation. Transcript Hello,…

Statues and the Shapeshifting of History

As a young girl visiting Vicksburg, Mississippi, Julia Nguyen encountered a Civil War statue. It altered not only the way she understands history, but the way she thinks…

How Do You Get to the Stories We are Not Told?

Bernier shares how her lifelong interest in the history of slavery was sparked by curiosity about the stories that seemed to be missing in the account of the…

History, (Re)imagined

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism compelled Alexander Knirim, then a young historian, to re-think the role of imagination in history. Knirim…