Journey into an Undocumented Past: Why I Became a Historian
I became interested in history when I was deployed in the Middle East in 2008. I was troubled by boredom and the simplistic (and nationalistic) ways in which both my subordinates and superiors spoke...
View ArticleDistance, Empathy, and the Challenge of Interpreting an Intimate Past
In 1994, the state of California put on display the uglier side of democracy: nearly 60 percent of the electorate voted into law Proposition 187, the so-called Save Our State initiative, which sought...
View ArticleRadical Politics and Everyday Struggles: Using Archives and Oral History to...
Part of what makes doing history so exciting is that the questions and interpretive challenges never really end. In the process of tackling one question, a new one always emerges. Such is the case with...
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Beyond our Borders: Sharing the Undocumented Past with the Public
By now, two full years into graduate training and with two research summers under my belt, I have conducted a good number of oral histories. All are challenging in their own way, but the most...
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