Peter Feinman’s November 12 article on the New York History blog poses an interesting question. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,
where survival was of the upmost importance for people as well as historical
archives, Mr. Feinman asks what responsibility do each of us shoulder for the
recording and preserving of history, then and now? How are we documenting history in the making?
Several years ago, after watching a DVD of historian David
McCullough’s presentation in Salt Lake City, my husband and I started keeping
our personal journals. We document
not only what is going on in our personal lives, but also document how we feel
about the events in the local community, the nation, and the world. We now need to plan ahead to assure that our
journals, as well as those of our ancestors that we have in our possession, are
preserved.
But is that enough? Mr. Feinman poses a number of
though-provoking questions, and I urge you to read through his essay and give
some thought to, “what it means to be an historian in our local
globalized-communities where history never stops.
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