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Bookstores are Political

Bookstores are political. Today there are the those that have banned-book clubs and offer space to Trans support groups. They feature the works of Black, Indigenous, Latine and LGBTQ authors and subjects. “Labor” is a section, and so is “AAPI.” Genocide is a fact of...

Social Emotional Learning Circa 1965: “Be Like Christopher”

Public History, Racism

In Mrs. Macintosh’s second grade class at the Lawrence Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts, the October 1965 lessons focused on social emotional health. We were encouraged to believe in ourselves and our ideas, even if they were unpopular, to be...

Monumental Trauma

Bicycle Touring, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History

In the South Korean drama Rain or Shine, (to avoid a spoiler go to next paragraph), two survivors of a building collapse, interview other survivors about what kind of memorial they want. The construction company, now rebuilding on the site, had erected a memorial. A...

Calling up the Nineteenth Century to Understand our Own Times. Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth, Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered and Tony Horowitz’s Spying on the South

Public History, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies, Uncategorized

Annette Gordon-Reed, and Barbara Kingsolver are writers grounded in history, science, and Tony Horowitz was a writer steeped in evidence, yet reading On Juneteenth, Unsheltered, and Spying on the South together, felt like a mystical retreat with three mediums,...

The Aspiring Intersectional Feminist Traveler

Bicycle Touring, Public History, Radical Hospitality, Sustainable Economies

I am preparing to be interviewed by the Intrepid Traveler. That caused me to consider, what kind of traveler am I? I am not intrepid. I travel loaded with fears and cautions. I think I am an aspiring Intersectional Feminist Traveler. What does it mean to be an...

Never Again

Public History

Never Again “While some nations vow never to forget, our American battle hasalways been over what we allow ourselves to remember.” — Wesley Lowery, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain,...