I wish I'd written this brilliant commentary...
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
"This is part of our family history" - meaning in the AIDS Memorial Quilt
Genealogy and history: love & hate
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
Where the Quilt is kept
"In Small Things Forgotten"
The craft and character of oral history
On people, or: "I didn't want to start with an issue"
Oral history in practice: find the people, and a project becomes real
China, Community, Essays, Public HistoryJessica McCraryadoption, Atlanta, China, Chinese-American experience, grad school, international history, oral history, Public History
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
Artistry in the world, in our work, in ourselves
Homage to midcentury last: the ranch home
StoryCorps and the lives of ordinary people
A city, not a blank slate. More like "an empty and brightly lit stage with lots of directors, scripts, auditions, designers, audiences, and reviewers."
Place: "writing from a place, from a community, from a location in the world"
The city and the country
My job as a psuedo travel organizer
