The Future of Historical Research & Technology: Reading The Past

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: It’s easier to write about a period you’ve lived through, but what do you do when everyone who lived during that time is long gone?…The obvious first place to start is with non-fiction books. (Kat Clay) The Buzz 2: Historical nonfiction is a broad category that depicts historical, real-life events…literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction overlap with historical nonfiction. (Masterclass staff) The Buzz 3: Historical fiction can be a tricky genre to master. If you haven't done your homework it won't feel authentic but…no one wants to read a novel that feels like a school history lesson… don’t chase accuracy too hard. (Hannah Kohler) The Buzz 4: Start with historical nonfiction. Poach bibliographies. Fall down the Google/Pinterest black hole, then dig yourself out. Read historical fiction…carefully…Get your (virtual) hands on memoirs and documents. (Lydia Kang) We’ll ask authors Brad Borkan, Ursula Wong, Sarah Smith and Sharon Yang for their take on “The Future of Historical Research and Technology: Reading The Past.”

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here,
0:06.9	ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen,
0:11.2	and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.0	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:21.3	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.6	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.5	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.4	I always forget which direction I put my hands for the future part when I'm doing it on Zoom.
0:41.6	So I said, well, did I go to the right?
0:43.1	It looks like a hula dance.
0:44.2	Did I go to the right?
0:45.1	Did I go to the left?
0:46.0	Hello, LinkedIn.
0:46.8	Hello, Facebook.
0:47.7	This is Bonnie D. in the house.
0:48.9	Happy to be here.
0:49.6	I've got a very interesting topic for you. We're going to try our best to not make this political, but you sure
0:55.0	might think we would. We're talking about historical research, and we are certainly in interesting
1:00.4	times in the world right now, and how will historians tell schoolchildren, tell future readers,
1:07.6	future moviegoers what happened? Well, we're not talking about that today.
1:12.4	I'm talking to novelists. I'm talking to a historical nonfiction writer about what tools and tricks and tips they use to find out what happened in the past when they're writing about it.
1:23.2	So before I introduce my esteemed four panelists, and I want everybody to wave.
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