The Upper Midwest: a reflection
Essays, Family, History, IdentityJessica McCraryculture, Fargo, Making a Murderer, Michigan, pop culture, Television, upper midwest, Wisconsin
Color + industry, the making of modern textiles
Travel journal: 2011: Hemingway's house in Cuba
Essays, History, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryCaribbean, Cuba, grad school, Hemingway, island living, travel, travelogues, writers
Grey Area: A True War Story.
Essays, History, History and Memory, On WritingJessica McCraryfiction, inspiration, memory, nonfiction, on writing, truth, war
Georgia: A State's History in Peril
A tragedy in South Asia, 1947: Part 1 of reflections on Indian Summer
On Atlanta's traffic issues and the dismal hope of a better future: In which I present a scathing criticism of the state and the metro counties
Essays, History, PoliticsJessica McCraryAtlanta, cities, Georgia history, race relations, southern history, sprawl, transportation, U-S- cities
Fact, fabrication, and the Internet
Pinyin, created
In which discussing my job becomes instead a tangent on why we cannot digitize everything
My life is richer, simply because I asked
China, Community, Essays, History, Identity, Public History, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryadoption, Atlanta, China, family, Georgia State, grad school, hyphenated identity, identity, oral history
1988: "History will record..."
A Drama of Medicine & Man
2011 [a year like no other] and its place in history
"In Small Things Forgotten"
On Christmas and material memory
On people, or: "I didn't want to start with an issue"
"Art was not separate from everyday experience."
Telling stories without paper: human voices and created objects
Essays, History, Public History, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryglobal context, globalization, Henry Glassie, history, material culture, museums, oral history, Public History
"I want to say, this machine isn't just history." The garment industry in history, and in our lives today