{"id":23059,"date":"2022-08-28T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=23059"},"modified":"2022-08-28T22:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T04:13:32","slug":"2-favorite-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/2-favorite-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"2 favorite historians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love reading works of history, and I definitely have favorite historians. I was sad to learn of the passing of two of my favorites this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first was David McCullough. Years ago for fun, I wrote my dream guest list for the best dinnertime conversation, and he was one of my wishlist guests. My favorite books that he wrote are <em>Truman<\/em> and <em>John Adams<\/em>, but I have enjoyed many others. Here is a small clip of his voice that is worth listening to, especially from about minute 2 until the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inspiring Short: Against All Odds | David McCullough\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSj5luMuvZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other historian was Kate Holbrook. Her passing was especially sad to me, as she was young and had such a vibrant faith. I have met her, and in the few words we exchanged, I saw a very kind and earnest scholar and mother. I am a fan of her work to get Latter-day Saint women&#8217;s stories into the hands of Church members. I am a fan of her efforts to nurture her own living faith. I am sharing a Stanford Convocation address she gave in 2019 if you feel like listening to a smart, wise woman scholar who worked for the Church History Department. I can&#8217;t embed the video in this post, but this is the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SrtmCODK3Ik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SrtmCODK3Ik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading works of history, and I definitely have favorite historians. I was sad to learn of the passing of two of my favorites this month. The first was David McCullough. Years ago for fun, I wrote my dream guest list for the best dinnertime conversation, and he was one of my wishlist guests. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/2-favorite-historians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 favorite historians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23059"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23074,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059\/revisions\/23074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}