| Interchange | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Interchange

Genres of History

For links to historical works created by participants in this installment of “Interchange,” see <http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/interchange/>.
Last September the JAH inaugurated "Interchange," an annual section in which we publish an edited version of a month-long online conversation on history. For this year's installment, we discuss "genres of history" with six participants who present the past through novels, poems, cartoons, newspaper columns, films, museum exhibitions, and Web sites. The conversation, conducted in fall 2003, ranges widely: from evidence, anachronism, imagination, and art to technology, narrative, audience, and empathy. It reminds us once again that scholarly books and articles are not the only ways to approach the past.	1
Many thanks to our participants:	2
Robert Begiebing is professor of English and director of creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of six books, including three historical novels that constitute a trilogy on New England, 1648–1850. His most recent novel, Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction (2003), won the 2003 Langum Prize for historical fiction. Readers may contact Begiebing at <rbegiebing@snhu.edu>.	3
Joshua Brown is the executive director of the American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has created numerous forms of "visual history"—including films, Web sites, and cartoons. He is the author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002) and "The Hungry Eye," Common-Place, 2 (Jan. 2002) < http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-02/brown/> (June 24, 2004). Readers may contact Brown at <jbrown@gc.cuny.edu>.	4
Barbara Franco is executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and former president and CEO of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. For more than thirty years, she has worked to expand public access to history, especially in museums. She is the coeditor of Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits (1995). Readers may contact Franco at <bfranco@state.pa.us>.	. . .

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