Articles tagged with 'american-history' — 4 found
“History is a giant stone that lies on top of us”
What can films like Apocalypse Now tell us about our past? And if it’s all we’re getting, how can we think intently about where the Vietnam war fits in our historic and present day lives? Americans don’t tend to see the past in their everyday lives. If they do, it might be because of a [...]
February 1st, 2011Place: “writing from a place, from a community, from a location in the world”
Reconnecting with my Upper Peninsula past in the summer of 2010, I visited the Iron Mountain Iron Mine, one of my most favorite historical locales as a child. Part of the profession of writing and studying history demands an indifference to place. One reason for this is the slim chance of finding an academic position [...]
January 27th, 2011Why I love what I do:
"American Progress," by George Crogutt, 1873. Finishing up the semester next week, and I’ve got one major paper left. The class is Issues and Interpretations in American History, and without being to prosaic, the professor has decreed that our final assignment is to consider and reflect on the twelve books and three articles we’ve read [...]
December 2nd, 2010Me & 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 [...]
October 14th, 2009