Category: Public Humanities

Drafting the Contents of an “Open” Literary History

March 5, 2017November 7, 2017 admin2 CommentsPublic Humanitiesearly american literature, OER, open anthology, open education, open pedagogy

Any collection of national literature rests finally on that country’s founding myths. This is to say, literary history is the practice of legend making, and the choices behind its creation won’t be innocent, objective, or even wholly scholarly. Indeed, Read More

Graceland University Poetry Day Project

June 1, 2016 adminLeave a commentPublic HumanitiesGraceland University, Lamoni, Poetry, Public Humanities

O blessed poet of freedom and God, How few have ascended the heights thou hast trod! Marietta Walker printed these lines in Autumn Leaves— the young adult literary journal she founded and edited—two years before donating a 20 acre plot of Read More