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On this episode, longtime teacher turned editor and writer, Kim Bancroft gives us a look into nineteenth-century California in her new book 'Writing Themselves into History'.
History is full of narratives and even those narratives have a history. As a high school history teacher, I went into my Neville-Pribram Mid-Career Educator fellowship with a motivation to help my students better understand where popular history narratives come from so they can better predict where they are going. Look to the past to predict the future? Easy peasy, right?