This afternoon while driving home from the University of Delaware during a heavy downpour, I listened to Transom, a new public media show. The broadcast, “Southern Flight 242: Bringing My Father Home” by Will Coley, was the piece that had me attentively listening as the rain came down. In it, an audio documentarian digs deeply…
Category: Public History
Serving on Board of Historic Hosanna School Museum
Several months ago, the Executive Director of the Historic Hosanna School Museum, Iris Barnes, invited me to serve on the board of the nonprofit. I had worked with the group on a Smithsonian oral history project as a pubic historian, so I was pleased to join this visionary organization. Its mission is to share the rich…
Police Officer Slain 122 Years Ago Remembered in Service
May 2, 2013 — On a beautiful day in early May dozens of current and retired Wilmington Police Officers gathered with their assembled AR-10 rifles in Cathedral Cemetery to pay their respects to an officer who was murdered in the line of duty 122-years-ago. They stood in a lonely corner of the burial ground, the…
Presentation on Research and Writing About History
On the day the Digital Public Library of America opened its virtual doors to the public, I was in Havre de Grace to do a talk with author Heidi Glatfelter on “Researching and Writing about the War of 1812.” We took a team approach to the program as I focused on new methods of doing…