Rena Yehuda Newman
My name is Rena Yehuda Newman (They/Them), the new Student Historian in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives. I’m here on this tumblr in the name of being a good self-historian. Here I’ll be documenting the research, ideas, epiphanies, philosophies, reflections, and poetry of the archives during my residency. Under the hashtag #UWStudentHistory, I’ll be sharing my musings on the regular, and you can follow me on this whimsical adventure through boxes of mystery materials and memories yet uncovered. As a History student entering their Junior year at UW-Madison, I find myself thinking a lot about memory. As a young Jewish kid, I remember a someone once telling me the difference between history and memory. History is concerned with what happened, while memory asks a different question: Who am I because it happened?
Read more of Rena Yehuda’s “Student Historian in Residence: Hello from the Archives!“