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American History

“Hamilton” the Musical makes History be Here and Now!

February 17, 2016

Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Tells Your Story?* “Hamilton,” a Personal History By Pam Pacelli Cooper President, Verissima Productions Click to listen to “Non-Stop” from Hamilton Click to listen to “Who Tells Your Story” from Hamilton

Context, Context, Context: Personal Historians and American History

April 30, 2015

By Pamela Pacelli, Personal Historian President, Verissima Productions   So you’re doing a personal history for someone and they want to write about their grandmother who was the first woman to vote in her tiny Kansas town. Or, you’re interviewing a 90-year-old man from Pennsylvania whose father fought in the First World War 100 years[Read More]

Palaces for the People: You and the Public Library

April 14, 2015

  By: Pamela Pacelli President, Verissima Productions   I was 7 years old and the huge grey building with its copper dome and tall, fluted columns seemed like one of the palaces I had read about in fairy tales. My mother and I walked through the heavy bronze door into a room with marble floors,[Read More]

Young Men at the Stills during Prohibition

A Wider View

February 27, 2015

by Pam Pacelli Cooper Verissima Productions   Today’s excerpt from the “Abbott Leonard Cohen Tapes,” recorded when he was 91 years old, provide a perfect example of the ways our perceptions can be altered when interviewing subjects or when reading diaries someone has left behind.   For most of his life, Len Cohen’s grandson Rob believed that his[Read More]

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