Margo Shea

  I am teaching a first year seminar on the sitcom Derry Girls. It turns out that this is a very popular topic! I  am collecting some resources to use and  to share with stude...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2023/08/teaching-derry-girls.html

 I don't write a lot of poetry but sometimes it feels right.

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2022/08/drought-poetry-is-probably-thing.html

 I am so pleased to have connected with the LAVA Arts Center/ECHO Greenfield history makers.  I met with them over the summer and then had a "redo" of that talk on Zoom last week. ...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2021/09/echo-greenfield-talk-on-oral-history.html

 Book Review of Derry CityMy book was reviewed and that is always good news!You may read the review, published in the Public Historiani and written by postgraduate researcher Naomi Petropoul...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2021/08/review-of-derry-city-my-book-was.html

 It was such a pleasure to talk with Ryan Shelton of New Books Network about my book, Derry City.  I've linked to the interview here. Enjoy!For a 40% off coupon and free shipping, ...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2021/07/new-books-network-interview.html

 My mom loved St. Patrick's Day. The retinue of "deedle-lee-dee" gave her great joy. At some point in the week leading up to the holiday, there would be singing in person or over the phone, ...

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 Last month, I had the pleasure of joining a panel hosted by Dan Lipcan of the Phillips Library and moderated by public historian Kristin Harris about the legacies of the Salem Witch Trials....

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/11/pem-event-witch-trials-and-salem-then.html

 The lovely people at Wistariahurst invited me to talk about Derry City and people got to jump in and ask questions, which was really fun.  The talk is a little different, though obvs t...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/09/book-talk-at-wistariahurst-museum-on.html

 Want to hear more about my book?  You can watch an author talk here.For a 40% off coupon and free shipping, enter (type, don't copy and paste) the promo code 14AHA22. This offer is goo...

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It is rare that I speculate about the after life and rarer still that I anthropomorphize it, but I suppose childhood visions of heaven get stuck in our heads.  I amused myself while trying t...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/08/civil-rights-leaders-at-pearly-gates.html

In case you missed it on Historians Cooking the Past, I am posting my essay about my mom,  Janice Weigand Shea, here. June 30, 2020 If he had a tail, my father's would have been wagging. He ...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/07/strawberry-queen.html

Photo credit: Phillipa Stanton I love to cook.  It will come as no surprise to most readers that my response to the suspension of ordinary life in the face of a public health emergency is to...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/03/my-coronavirus-cooking.html

I am so excited for this event!

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2020/02/nancy-maclean-to-come-to-salem-state.html

I've been doing some more reading in this great book  in which I had the chance to include a chapter. It's made me want to generalize a little about emotion and affect in heritage -- to take...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2019/11/affective-practices-and-trauma-of.html

Very excited to share the catalogue info for Derry City!  (Note: If you want to buy the book, check here regularly, because I post discount promo codes from the press as they become availabl...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2019/11/derry-city-book-news.html

Add caption I'll be hanging out on Saturday ready to talk public history with you!  Come see me.........

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2019/10/come-talk-to-me-about-public-history.html

I really like teaching Susan Ferentinos' book Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites.  I like the "primer" nature on the history of sexuality and and how historiography meet...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2019/03/discussing-interpreting-lgbt-history-at.html

I recently wrote this piece in response to the comparisons of Kavanaugh's hearings to the witch trials in Salem in 1692 on behalf of Voices Against Injustice, a Salem-based nonprofit organization...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/10/kavanaugh-this-was-no-witch-hunt.html

Just a few nights after my mother died, my sister Ellen and I were driving to a hotel near the small cottage at a senior community where my parents have lived since 2013. "What are we going to do...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/08/when-home-is-person-not-place.html

I never gave a lot of thought to death until my mother died unexpectedly two months ago.  Now, I think about it all the time. Until confronted by it ourselves, we tend to ignore death and gr...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/06/when-someone-you-love-dies-notes-for.html

Credit: Museum of Free Derry The celebrations of Saint Columba in Derry City represent one of my favorite examples of what Eric Hobsawm and Terence Ranger named "an invented tradition."  In ...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/06/june-9-feast-of-saint-columba.html

Take a class with me this summer! Online conversations, field trips, occassional class meetings.  You will love it.  Registration Information: click here.  

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/03/public-history-summer-course.html

Recently, a friend and fellow historian read a section of my manuscript for me.  She made an acute observation about the ways my protagonists consistently dug deep into the past whenever fac...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2018/03/piracy-or-exchange-fate-of-ideas-in.html

Veterans of the armed services aren't visible in our public and political culture because they aren't statistically significant.  That's what Tom Landers, an Army veteran and a graduate stud...

http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2017/11/listen-to-veterans.html

I copied over this article from the UMass History Dept blog.     In 2015, I set off for south-central Tennessee’s South Cumberland plateau to take up a two-year  Mellon fell...

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