People & History

How 1864 becomes an obsession.

History is selective. Introduces interest in the people who disappear between official records: settlers, Native people, women, laborers, tenants, families.

What happens when deeds, maps, newspapers and archives take you only so far? Establishes your boundary between documentation, inference and intuition.

A meditation on historical markers: what they commemorate, what they simplify, and what remains beneath them. Excellent introduction to responsibility toward history.

Settler history and Indigenous history don't have to be arranged as competing narratives. The land held both. This quietly establishes one of the major premises of the series.