by Timothy C. Neumann | Nov 2, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Summer of ‘64… We drove our old, woodie Mercury three-seater, oil-burning station wagon with a one-wheeled trailer piled high with a family-of-six’s earthly belongings in tow, across the continent from Fresno, California, to Waxhaw, North...
by Adam Mazo | Nov 8, 2010 | The Public Humanist
“Before I had a trauma problem. I could not study. I was always suffering from headaches. I was always crying. I was hopeless about life because I thought was alone on earth.” That’s the first thing Fifi said to me when we began our interview with...
by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Nov 19, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Norman Rockwell “Freedom From Want” (1943)Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Close your eyes and picture this scene: you and loved ones sharing food and memories, creating new ones, talking, laughing, lifting a glass of wine or a forkful of pie to toast...
by Wendy Lement | Nov 24, 2010 | The Public Humanist
When I was a graduate student at Emerson College, I enrolled in an Oral History and Performance course co-taught by professors Ron Jenkins (theatre) and Blanche Linden-Ward (history). We created a documentary theatre script, gaining practical experience in documenting...
by David Tebaldi | Dec 2, 2010 | The Public Humanist
In a lengthy and widely cited cover story for theJanuary/February 2010 issue of The Atlantic magazine that serves as the conceptual framework for Mass Humanities’ seventh annual fall symposium and is paradoxically entitled “How America Can Rise...
