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A cold morning in February and a sun still shy to rise, it’s time to harvest olives! As all the baggage is ready from the day before, there…
The following text is a transcript of the above recording. My name is Daun Fields, I’m a punk singer and a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida….
In 2013, as a new college student, I started exploring genealogy. I learned to use the research skills that I developed from college history class to explore primary…
Gwen Harwood’s “Bone Scan” will always have a place in my heart when it comes to my inspiration for teaching Literature and my abiding interest in the humanities….
When I was 5 years old, my family and I gathered around the Christmas tree bright and early on Christmas morning. I was more than excited when I…
A few years ago I was riding in the car with my mom. She was listing to a book called The Day The World Came To Town. It’s…
From the moment I was born I was wrapped in the warmth of a blanket. The doctors and nurses took me, wrapped me up and placed me on…
After spending some time searching for my very own, singular, life-altering “humanities moment” that set me on my chosen path, I came to the conclusion that no such…
I discovered the poetry of William Blake on a bookshelf in San Francisco. Set beside the works of Charles Baudelaire, and other books I’ve long forgotten, Blake’s poems…
I am a second-generation Turkish American. However, how does this hyphenated identity impact the daily interactions I have in society? When taking an intercultural communication course, I was…
My Humanities Moment was when I first read David Christian’s Maps of Time during my 2nd year of grad school. It made me interested in some of the…
I grew up an hour and a half northwest of San Antonio, Texas in a small, rural town called Medina. Medina is home to one school (K-12 campus),…
For most of my life I had been focused on one thing, goal, and desire. This obsession was football and getting to the highest level possible. I had…
Ron Eisenman shares how a PBS television series encouraged him to pursue his passions and turn to the humanities to help him make sense of the world around…
While acting as a teaching assistant for a large art appreciation course, Caroline Jones witnessed a student’s curiosity about a painting of the Madonna. Such symbols, so pervasive…
In this account, William E. Leuchtenburg shares the story of a seemingly routine exchange with literary scholars in the late 1970s which spurred him to new insights about…
Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California, reflects on her life growing up in New Mexico and how a low grade on a poetry analysis assignment in…
In this short video, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recalls having Robert Penn Warren read a passage from his novel All the King’s Men during the production of the…
Carol Quillen describes how, growing up, her initial insights and perceptions came from what she calls promiscuous reading — reading anything and everything and then finding connections among…
In this video recollection, author and conservation activist Terry Tempest Williams describes her first encounter with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the ethical questions shared by her grandmother…