Month: March 2021

Perceptions and Connections

Published by Halle Howard on March 29, 2021

I believe that the different perspectives that people can offer when studying history are one of the field’s best features. That being said, for a long time, we did not have many different perspectives, especially academically. The chance for someone with my background to make…

Storytelling

Published by Halle Howard on March 8, 2021

“As a writer committed to telling stories, I have endeavored to represent the lives of the nameless and the forgotten, to reckon with loss, and to respect the limits of what cannot be known.” (Saidiya Hartman)This quote, to me, is what it means to be…

Primary Source

Published by Halle Howard on March 1, 2021

This source is a newspaper article written in August 1993 about a benefit hosted by and for Black gay men suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia. The benefits went to the William J Craig foundation, which provides services to black people with AIDS. This article was…