<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Holding History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bookish Conversations Across Generations]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:26:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.holdinghistory.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Holding History Podcast Season 3 Episode 3: AI and the Human]]></title><description><![CDATA[Season 3 Episode 3 Guest Name: Meghan O’Gieblyn Interviewer Names: Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty Recorded on Date: July 29, 2025 “The thing that I love about other humans and that also makes life with them very difficult is that they surprise you. You know, they don't act in predictable ways. They don't act how you want them to act all the time. And I think that that's really important. I worry about a world in which we're sort of inured to that friction or that we don't desire it anymore.”...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/holding-history-podcast-season-3-episode-3-ai-and-the-human</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689ccba1bff634728bd96acc</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:00:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_3872955a41ee4ad096ee99cda8f1f8de~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethan Kay: AI, Commonplace Books, and Information Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Season 3 Episode 2 Guest Name: Ethan Kay Interviewer Names: Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty Recorded on Date: June 17, 2025 “I think [AI]...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/ethan-kay-ai-commonplace-books-and-information-management</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6894f5d7790df6e1aa85e5cd</guid><category><![CDATA[HH Pod]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:00:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_dd6e9de3fa4b4db0b2b442e8d69a0aca~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_800,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Brumfield and Sara Carlstead Brumfield: AI, Accessibility, and Library Archives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Season 3 Episode 1 Guest Names: Ben Brumfield and Sara Carlstead Brumfield Interviewer Names: Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty Recorded on...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/ben-brumfield-and-sara-carlstead-brumfield-ai-accessibility-and-library-archives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6894be179ac5e3b05d321ac6</guid><category><![CDATA[HH Pod]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:00:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_a02e4ff7030f4a80a02fbdd9b959248c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_889,h_699,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, History, and Citizenship: Holding History 2024-2025 Year in Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year, Holding History continued our commitment to facilitating and creating spaces where people within and beyond the university’s...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/knowledge-history-and-citizenship-holding-history-2024-2025-year-in-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68250a90696ba1ee38924e0e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 14:00:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_ee36aa66834a4cd98572f526bd928f0c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being (Multigenerational) Citizen Archivists: Transcribathon 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a rainy March evening, students, Holding History staff, and fellow Madisonians came together for our first ever Transcribathon. Over...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/being-multigenerational-citizen-archivists-transcribathon-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">682508438b15ca956eb51616</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 14:01:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_a5ef2f40fdd04c889e09c2f5cde4997f~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrating a Milestone: Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty's First Academic Article on Holding History’s Public Humanities Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’re excited to share that Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty have published a new article,  How to Design Public Events , in  Public...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/celebrating-a-milestone-joshua-calhoun-and-sarah-marty-s-first-academic-article-on-holding-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6818e6dae5d16b2dff9da46a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 16:33:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embodied Knowledge: Papermaking 2024 in Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[“This bin needs more pulp” I say as I wave my hand through the milky, watery substance. I look over at Grace Gooley  and she agrees,...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/embodied-knowledge-papermaking-2024-in-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">671fc346d74b1ce1738ad3b8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:20:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_df9ec3cbc6644585b550ef05b93846e9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can the archives inspire a multimedia atlas?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Holding History Podcast Season 2, Episode 3 “The water likes to reclaim territory where it was previously.” - Christina Gerhardt This...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/how-can-the-archives-inspire-a-multimedia-atlas-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66f5c930afcaa55c1c55eeea</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:53:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_0576183899204725bfac7cf5c5cb746b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Community of the Archives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ideas about the community formed through reading are constantly changing. Is reading a solitary activity or one that builds connections? ]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/the-community-of-the-archives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66314185c5ac2616aba852cc</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading in the Archives]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:00:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/008ffe_89456b643dc74bc5ae755175c85c53fc~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_839,h_591,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kadence Zielski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unraveling Sonder]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Examining Centuries-Old Copies of Religious Texts Situates Us within the Vast Expanse of Time and Human Experience Last fall, on a...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/unraveling-sonder</link><guid isPermaLink="false">662aceed0b4f7c96c50514c6</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading in the Archives]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:00:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f5b766_589d1bb7f4e44a8e8b92b4dd1ae08289~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Farhan Adnan</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing our new Holding History Project Assistant!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cecelia Alfonso-Stokes, a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins us as the new project...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/introducing-our-new-holding-history-project-assistant-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">669bef76aa207bbf52dbf910</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:24:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41f9cd_8d95e879d3aa487baf5531698bba0729~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cecelia Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.W.W.W.: What was Will's Will?]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare should have tried harder to preserve his plays. He should have secured his final manuscripts or something for future...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/w-w-w-w-what-was-will-s-will</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6639367b6f31e8c53372e145</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading in the Archives]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:00:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f2a903_8190eb8848db4d3eb4e6dbeb0a4e95ff~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_765,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Eva Yoshikawa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Aeneid: From Literature to Homework to Propaganda ]]></title><description><![CDATA[After grappling with the epic in high school, Riley Soutar returns to The Aeneid at UW–Madison’s Special Collections—but this time to explor]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/the-aeneid-from-literature-to-homework-to-propaganda</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66318b15674f35e4ab045ff9</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading in the Archives]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:00:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7462e7_9bc6212d0b0b4910937b12edeef2236d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_338,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Riley Soutar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intimate Conversations: Letters from the Archives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watery Ink: Why I Didn't Believe in Handwriting As a student-athlete in high school, like many of my teammates, I was focused on...]]></description><link>https://www.holdinghistory.org/post/intimate-conversations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">664ce4a7f724944e0cda10b6</guid><category><![CDATA[Reading in the Archives]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:00:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f2a903_a05d7bd0698a4a1ea32bde3d243035ca~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_578,h_324,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nyla Sharma</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Star-Crossed Lovers: A Twisted Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet in the same story? 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