Posts in History and Memory
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
The Life and Times of Things
Essays, History and Memory, Identity, Popular Culture, Public HistoryJessica McCraryeconomics, Marketplace, material culture, meaning, objects and meaning, value
What language can tell us: reflections on dying words and meaning
Taryn Simon, exploring bloodlines and stories that bind us, through photos
Genealogy and history: love & hate
The craft and character of oral history
Ten years later.
"History is a giant stone that lies on top of us"
Through the Disney lens
More on the unsolvable morality of the atomic bomb
Stirring up old leaves, long settled: Willie McGee, family history, and good storytelling