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Tell History offers occasional excursions to both the commonplace settings and the formal sites where we talk about, share, and imagine the past. Anthropologist Victor Turner held that storytelling is in our nature: “culture in general–specific cultures and the fabric of meaning that constitutes any single human existence–is the story we tell about ourselves.” Tell History will listen in and report back on the stories that we tell about the past in photograph albums, history museums, communities, landscapes, books, academia, Web sites, and everyday conversations. Tell History also looks to the role of the university as a “steward of place” concerned with strengthening both cultural life and civic engagement in the region. Tell History is produced by Marjorie McLellan, public historian, folklorist, engaged citizen and associate professor of Urban Affairs and Geography at Wright State University. Consolidated here are posts from other blogs including the original TellHistory page at http://tellhistory.wordpress.com and the collaborative WSU Digital Humanities Forum page at http://webapp3.wright.edu/web2/digitalhumanities/.

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