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Description:: Panel Discussion on Oral History Theory and Practice Oral history allows us to access the many voices of history, not just the more powerful or dominant voices traditionally found in the written record. Many people utilize oral history in diverse ways across multiple disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences. Oral history can be a meaning...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Tobbell, Dominique; Sommer, Barbara; Shea, Peter; Hillmer, Paul
Created:: 2014-03-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Millett, Larry
Created:: 2014-03-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Barbara Sommer is an public historian with a specialty in oral history and a Minnesota native.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Sommer, Barbara
Created:: 2014-03-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Taking Anna to the Zoo: Going to the Same Place A Lot, and Then Writing About What Happens Writers Katrina Vandenberg and John Reimringer frequently take their young daughter Anna to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. Katrina is working on a book about a girl named Anna, somewhat older than her daughter, who also frequently visits that zoo. We will ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Shea, Peter
Created:: 2014-03-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Daniel Trudeau is Assistant Professor of Geography at Macalester College. As an urban social geographer, Trudeau is particularly interested in ways that social, political, legal and economic processes influence city life and landscapes, as well as the ways that people and organizations create meaningful places and landscapes through participatio...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Trudeau, Dan
Created:: 2014-03-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Emilie Buchwald talks to Peter Shea about how she became a children's writer: her early fascination with poetry, her college opportunities to study with John Cheever and George Plimpton, the completion of her English thesis at the University of Minnesota, her involvment at the Loft Literary Center, and her founding of Milkweed Chronicle with Ran...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Buchwald, Emilie
Created:: 2014-03-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Professor Peter Weisensel, Professor of History at Macalester College, is a specialist in modern Russian history. In this March 2014 interview, he talks to Peter Shea about current events in Ukraine.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Weisensel, Peter
Created:: 2014-03-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Jennifer Streb is Curator of the Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Art History at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Streb‚Äôs doctoral dissertation at Juniata dealt with Minna Citron‚Äôs social realist paintings of the 1930s-40s. Together with Christiane Citron, Streb ia curator of The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstracti...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Streb, Jennifer
Created:: 2014-03-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about her writing and how she came to write about racism and her students. She explains how her primary pursuits in later life have moved away from direct i...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Landsman, Julie
Created:: 2014-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Andy Wilhide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, researching the histories of migration and refugee resettlement in Minnesota and focusing on the Somali community and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wilhide, Andy
Created:: 2014-03-02
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13