Author Archives: marnielk

In Patrick Grossi’s “Plan or Be Planned For”:  Temple Contemporary’s Funeral for a Home and the Politics of Engagement, it makes me consider a number of questions that I ask myself as a public historian.  What is the purpose of … Continue reading →

W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s was an eye opening experience in reading.  I was born and raised in the South.  I was born in Mississippi, raised in Louisiana and have lived in Georgia for over twenty years.  While reading Brundage’s The Southern … Continue reading →

As I was reading Trouillot’s Silencing the Past, I found some very interesting details in his footnotes.  On page four he was writing about One-sided Historicity, as he calls it.  It was a very intriguing term, it begged me to continue to … Continue reading →

In Gary Nash’s For Whom Will the Liberty Bell Toll? slavery and public history are discussed.  Nash’s narrative sheds light on a very sensitive subject for America.  It is an interesting article, one that I never thought of.  Some of the … Continue reading →