I came into the class never having heard of Mikiso Hane, I knew we were going to be involved in…

Sometimes, when trying to relate to people or persons of the past, you can often find yourself a bit disconnected—it…

I suppose I relate to Mikiso Hane in regard to my area of historical interest. Although I do not have…

In some ways, the way I relate most to Mikiso Hane is through Knox. We are all connected through this…

On Wednesday I got to dig into one of the “Japan Years” boxes and all of the folders inside were…

The box that I opened was box #1 which contained a collection from Edgars Early Years (1857-1883) and Middle Years…

My box told about the years leading up to Bankrofts death in Japan in the 1920s. The box included photographs,…

The box I looked through was Box #7, which dealt with the posthumous period of Bankroft’s life. It contained a…

The point of history can be a lot of things depending on the lens in which you’re looking at it,…

History can, in many ways, be an expression of self. Indeed, that’s how my formation as a historian began. I…

The point of history is to collect and maintain knowledge of what happened in the past in order to observe…

I have always been fascinated with knowing why things are the way they are. When I was young, I loved…