Updates
Occasional notes on new essays, talks, and projects.
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Biography for Better Living
One of the things that first drew me to this project, and really excites me about it, is to see these two women, Normena MacKinnon and Gertrude Tiemer, actively studying other female couples in the arts to see how they built lives together. Both women were trying to learn more about Amy Lowell, for reasons…
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A New Direction
Once I hit my 50s I started thinking a lot about throughlines — interests and intellectual commitments that have circled back around after years, and even decades. My 16-year-old self would be stunned to learn that my 59-year-old self is grateful to Connie Krueger, an English teacher in my Wisconsin high school. I remember nothing…
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What Difference Does Historical Perspective Make?
What historical perspective can offer to public conversations about care at the end of life.
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Militarizing Memory at International Boundary Marker #1
How memory and commemoration are built into the landscape of the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Journey to the Border Wall
A reflection, with Sarah Leavitt, on a journey to the U.S.–Mexico border and what its wall asks of public memory.
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Living Monuments: Artist Nina Rossi’s “Pedestal Takeover”
On Nina Rossi’s “Pedestal Takeover” and the questions monuments pose to their communities.
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Postcards from an Imagined Early America
How early America is pictured, staged, and remembered at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House.
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U.S. Founders
How the founding generation is interpreted at museums and historic sites, and how to make it more inclusive.
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Teaching History Communication: Early Results
Early results from teaching students to communicate history to public audiences.
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Navigating Distance
A reflection on an international symposium on the role of historians in public life, held in Prague.
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