Footnotes: Annotating the Past

Ken Burns and the Meaning of the American Revolution

Reflections on Historical Memory and the Approach of the 250th Anniversary

Nov 20 • 

Ethan Healey

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Abraham Lincoln’s Quiet Burden

A Review of Joshua Wolf Shenk’s "Lincoln’s Melancholy"

Nov 16 • 

Ethan Healey

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Veterans and The Things They Carried

On Memory, Literature, and the Quiet Work of Carrying What Remains

Nov 11 • 

Ethan Healey

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The Boy Mayor in New York City

The city once trusted a 34-year-old reformer to rebuild itself. A century later, it’s doing it again.

Nov 6 • 

Ethan Healey

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May 2025

Mister Rogers’ Plea

The Essential Role of NPR and PBS in Our Culture

May 29 • 

Ethan Healey

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March 2025

New England, Present Tense

A Poem

Mar 28 • 

Ethan Healey

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The American Revolution and How We Remember It

Review of the book "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History," by Michael D. Hattem

Mar 7 • 

Ethan Healey

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January 2025

"Wildness in our own Backyards": How Humans Regard Nature

Review of the essay "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" by William Cronon.

Jan 11 • 

Ethan Healey

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November 2024

What is "Footnotes"?

A place to write into the void and start conversations.

Nov 1, 2024 • 

Ethan Healey

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