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This site began with a simple question: what does local history look like in the 21st century? Storied Past is a clearinghouse for California's local historians and storytellers to explore their craft and share their work. At it's heart, Storied Past will build a collection of stories about our history and memory of small town life in California, exploring how collective memory shapes our present day understanding of community -- and how those in the present can restore erased or forgotten memories of the past. Storied Past is especially interested in fragments -- ephemera like pictures, short films, pamphlets, drawings, and letters -- and the small stories that they convey. Storied Past will also house articles and tools that can help local historians and storytellers in their craft. In the process, Storied Past will build a network of professionals, volunteers, and community leaders interested in preserving community stories while uncovering experiences in the past that have been forgotten or erased.
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About the Editor |
Storied Past is edited by Kyle M. Livie. Kyle is currently a lecturer in history at San Francisco State University and California State University, Monterey Bay. A California native, Kyle holds a Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has worked with high school and college students for over fifteen years, teaching a range of courses from introductory classes in United States history and composition, to advanced research methods at a variety of institutions including UC Berkeley, UCLA, and California State University, Monterey Bay. Kyle’s research currently looks at community development and cultural formation in American metropolitan spaces in the early twentieth century, with special interest paid to how marginal groups shape shared identity, collective memory, and economic production. Kyle is at work on a book manuscript charting the development of rural community spaces in California and their contribution to cultural and economic change before World War II. Outside of historical scholarship, Kyle’s most recent work has also focused on curriculum development in the digital humanities, pioneering approaches to classroom learning in American politics and cultural studies that involving new media, hybrid and online classroom models, and tangible connections to work in public history.
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