Shorts
Newman’s Own Albania
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Off-hand jokes from a piano bench
A destroyed car at the entrance is hardly a sign that the archive is near.
People are genuinely curious about the past and excited to encounter it in unexpected ways.
There are so many wonderful opportunities in this field. Sometimes, you create your own.
When I tell people I’m a consulting public historian, this is how they respond.
“I was fortunate to do graduate school during the height of academic blogging.”
“I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.”
Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.
How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.