#historywriting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #historywriting, aggregated by home.social.
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My journey as a Tottenville historian began as a reporter covering Spanish Camp's demise, where I discovered Dorothy Day had stayed in a summer cottage as retreat from her Catholic Worker ministry. Learning she was baptized at my own parish, Our Lady Help of Christians, changed everything. History became personal.
#LocalHistory #TottenvilleHistory #DorothyDay #CatholicWorker #HistoryWriting #StatenIsland #Journalism
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/an-authors-journey-through-time-78d4f4c659f2?sk=bcde1ea4ca2a8384de1b7865d54fa716 -
Sometimes the best research discoveries happen when you're in the library. Finding Dr. Phillip Papas's That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution. Research has a way of connecting you to scholars whose work becomes integral to your own understanding.
#HistoryResearch #AmericanRevolution #LocalHistory #TottenvilleHistory #HistoryWriting #StatenIsland #Loyalists
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/when-research-comes-to-life-3ed672eb6234?sk=76c1788008bed447339306d5bb674cf5 -
History: Wisdom from the wonderful Hilary Mantel 🖋 📚
#History #AustralianHistory #AustralianStories #Histodons #AustralianPodcast #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #HistoryWriting #HilaryMantel