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In Everybody’s History, Erekson encourages teachers to take their students into the archives. “After countless hours of painstaking research through photos, libraries, archives, and oral histories,” his students donated their research papers to the El Paso Museum of History. [Read the full press release (written by the students)] They researched and wrote about […]
The Vermont Historical Society bestowed its Ben Lane Award on Keith Erekson for the best article published in Vermont History during 2005-2007. The article, “The Joseph Smith Memorial Monument and Royalton’s ‘Mormon Affair’: Religion, Community, Memory, and Politics in Progressive Vermont,” was published in on pages 118-151 of the Summer/Fall 2005 issue.
The Oral History Review has published Erekson’s “Method and Memory in the Midwestern ‘Lincoln Inquiry’: Oral Testimony and Abraham Lincoln Studies, 1865-1938.” The article reviews the efforts from the 1880s through the 1930s to collect and examine oral histories with Abraham Lincoln’s Indiana neighbors. OHR is the official publication of the Oral History […]
The Indiana Magazine of History sent Erekson–and his family–to review the controversial new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL. “Even before the museum opened to the public,” Erekson notes, “some critics had already disparaged it, media displays and all, with the dismissive D-word (Disney).” The museum has attracted millions of visitors by […]
In 2006, Erekson earned certification in Web Markup & Style Coding and then designed a blog and newsletter for History SoTL: An International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in History. In the words of Time Magazine, he was one of many this year celebrated “for seizing the reins of the […]
