In her interview for The Fight & The Fiddle, Shara McCallum talks about her entry point into historical research as not the drive to “be part of the project of history” and the question “What is my unfinished business?” This prompt invites you to visit a physical or virtual archive, explore and sit with the material, engage your curiosity– Where might you enter? What absences are you alert to? What is centered, and what hides or is hidden in the margins? What alternative stories might the facts and artifacts before you tell? Then, write toward your own “unfinished business” with “the project of history.”

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