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When I was in middle school I came to love history, especially Russian history and Hitler’s Germany. This time period intrigued me, plus I learned if I read…
My humanities moment occurred while visiting the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut. This was my second to visit to this amazing museum and research center….
I had heard about this documentary, Three Identical Strangers, from a co-worker – she said I absolutely had to see it! I am fascinated by the nature vs….
The first time I saw Children of a Lesser God was in a large theater. I expected it to be just another blockbuster and as it started my…
While discussing N. Scott Momaday’s novel A House Made of Dawn, Professor Bowden introduced a new concept – geosophy. It was an unexpected moment during an undergraduate geography…
I’ve always loved to travel, and one of my favorite parts is getting to have a connection to the place that in our classrooms we refer to in…
The guiding question for my Humanities Moment pertains to the most recent film that I cannot stop talking about with my peers, friends, family and strangers. As a…
In this audio recording, graduate student Margherita Berti describes how an ordinary encounter while studying abroad gave her a new outlook on cultural differences, practices, and perspectives. Transcript…
The image I chose for my humanities moment is representative of how I have come to understand myself, society and the cities around the world. While many might…
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 year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States. I don’t think I truly grasped the reality that (white)…
My humanities moment connects to a book, titled Damaged Goods: Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases written by Adina Nack, a sociologist and women’s and gender studies…
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,…
This plaque, and several others, are sprinkled throughout Eatonville, Florida to guide a walking tour of America’s first legally established self-governing all-African American municipality. Eatonville was established in…
Historian Ed Ayers discusses how Richmond, Virginia’s 2015 sesquicentennial celebration drew upon the past to re-imagine the future. He emphasizes the ways in which the event’s planners sought…
My humanities moment came with my conversion from Islam to Christianity. It opened a wide world for me and enabled me to see that my new faith was…
My Humanities Moment involves a connection between two individuals that might not initially seem to have anything in common: Jane Austen and Quentin Tarantino. One of the first…
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…
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,…
Heitzenrater describes his transition from an early focus on classical music to the revelation that multi-track recording could enable him to reach new creative heights in musical composition…