Archive for the ‘Historio’ Category
I’d like to buy the world a Coke…
Delivering peace, one Coke at a time…
“What the world wants today” is both that elusive peace, and a Coke, as the commercial famously puts it. Buying a Coke is one form of peace, I guess; but how else do we define it?
War, in the name of peace…
The thought is bewildering, paradoxical, and also quite present [...]
Discovering, India
A visit to the East, one of many rich, inspiring locales.
There are many places in the world counted as historically valuable and culturally rich, places that inspire, bewilder, and enchant every generation who discovers them in their own way. And the experience is different for each person, different for the native resident, different for the [...]
Adventures in an undergrad history thesis, or, four months with Young John Allen
The fall semester has ended, and with it, the largest writing project of my life (so far). The function of a senior seminar in history is to prove that you’ve acquired the skills to read and analyze scholarly work, do research in primary and secondary sources, and develop your own historical argument– one that contributes [...]
December 11th, 2009Fighting for a country in which you have no rights…
This may sound more like a description of a totalitarian state, a lawless nation in remote Africa (or urban Africa), or maybe a Soviet-era Eastern European country. I’ve just been learning all about the atrocities suffered on the German-Russian front of WWII in Dan Carlin’s “Ghosts From the Ostfront” podcast series, and how many of [...]
November 12th, 2009Me & the thirteenth colony: finding “my” history
Hello, Georgia!
I may have alluded to this at least once before, but I’ll say it again: I am only now discovering the breadth of colorful and amazing Georgia history there is to explore. As a novice historian, the past several years of my college education has been a journey in finding my spot within the [...]
Decatur Street, 2009: Lessons in Atlanta’s 1906 race riot
For the first half of my history senior seminar class, we had assigned readings–articles from the Georgia Historical Quarterly–that we discussed for their knowledge and arguments but also for their technical structure and research methods. Because the ultimate goal of the course is our own senior theses, we were using these as models for what [...]
October 13th, 2009Museum studies, week 3
Journal entry, which is explained in the previous post, for week three of Museum Studies. Discusses two articles we read to prepare for class discussion– one about the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and the other about the history of history museums and historic preservation in the U.S. Both great topics. Also a blip about my [...]
September 7th, 2009Museum studies and the Tuskegee Airmen
This fall I am part of a team that is curating an exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen for KSU’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. The exhibit will be on display Nov. 17 – February, and then will begin to travel to schools for possibly the next ten years. That’s a project that turns into [...]
August 30th, 2009Jessie’s pensieve: @ start of summer
In an effort to compile several small things that are on my mind, this will serve as small list of blog-worthy things happening now, that maybe work better when merely mentioned, and not stretched out for content’s sake (and therefore, in the danger zone “boring.” This is more of a personal blog than I usually [...]
May 30th, 2009Flying kites
The Kite Runner has already been read by millions, translated and subsequently read in dozens of other languages, but I have only just read it. The book was published in 2003, a ripe time in history for considering the Afghan people, and studying their history and culture in detail, if not to completely understand, at [...]
May 21st, 2009