Tag: Documentary


Department Hosts Documentary Crew to Discuss Public History and the Media

Earlier this semester, Drs. John Giggie and Julia Brock hosted the documentary crew Phil Bertelsen and Rachel Dretzin for a free lunch and discussion on their recent film, Hope and Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media. Students discussed the project and Bertelsen’s and Dretzin’s respective career paths, as well as how they too could join the film and media world as historians. Documentary film work is another facet of the growing world of public history, a field which we in […]

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Professor Emeritus George Rable Featured in Documentary

Professor Emeritus George C. Rable was recently featured on the American Heroes Channel’s documentary series Blood and Fury: America’s Civil War, where he was interviewed for their “Battle of Fredericksburg” episode. Rable is the author of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, which details the battle and is the recipient of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (2003), The American Civil War Museum’s Jefferson Davis Award (2002), and The Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award in American History (2004). Rable has been featured on television […]

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Assistant Professor Sharony Green’s Feature-Length Documentary, The Grant Green Story Accepted for Inclusion in Harlem International Film Festival

Assistant Professor Sharony Green’s first feature length documentary, The Grant Green Story, will premiere at the 11th Annual Harlem International Film Festival in New York City, September 14-18, 2016. The film unveils the life of the late jazz guitarist Grant Green, her former father-in-law. Green is best known for his work with Blue Note Records, America’s first independent jazz label, during the company’s heyday, the early-to-mid 1960s. He died at the age of forty-three in 1979. Among the individuals interviewed […]

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