{"id":8586,"date":"2026-01-28T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:21:48","slug":"history-homecoming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8586","title":{"rendered":"History Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alas, another week has flown by and so that means another publication the BA is here! If you\u2019re looking for something fun to do next week, there is an event for you. Humanities Homecoming! What is Humanities Homecoming? Well, it is a gathering filled with current humanities students, their favorite history professors, and karaoke! It is on November 13th in the Bank Building. The event will kick off with a procession & bonfire in Logan Gallery at 7:30pm, then at 8pm in the Bank building until 11pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a soon-to-be-15 year old event where you can also (highly encouraged!) dress up as any decade you want! To give me more insight on this occasion, I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Whitney Leeson about the event! Here\u2019s what she answered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: What has been your favorite part of History Homecoming? Any costumes that have left you astounded?<\/span><\/p>\n

A: \u201cSo I love the dancing. I am all about dancing. I am always amazed at my colleagues Rob Williamham and Jason Hawke. They are the Footnotes, they both sing\u2026to see them perform and sing\u2026I love the karaoke\u2026But I also love the opportunity to see the students in a way we don\u2019t see them in class\u2026There was a guy one time who dressed up as a newspaper boy\u2026somebody dressed up as Martin Luther one time\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: What are the eras of time you see most often?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A: \u201cThe 20s tend to be popular, 70s\u202660s\u202650s too. The other one is the Regency era. I assume that\u2019s because\u2026Pride and Prejudice is in their head\u2026and then Bridgerton. Bridgerton helped because\u2026opened that up because they\u2019re playing for fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: If someone has never gone, what would you tell them to get excited for History Homecoming?<\/span><\/p>\n

A: \u201cYou don\u2019t need to worry about a costume, you don\u2019t need to worry about doing karaoke, if you just come, you will have fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: Do you get to see this event as a way of preserving history for a modern audience?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A: I put this in the category of public history\u2026its not recreating history, not even preserving history in the sense of preserving an outfit, but what you are doing is you are building a little bit of empathy with the past\u2026Even if they are just spending an hour thinking about what someone in 1920 wear and how can I even come close to doing that in terms of costume?.. Any time we can make that kind of connection, it\u2019s a little bit of empathy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: Of all the historical costumes you see, what is one historical fashion trend you hope makes a comeback?<\/span><\/p>\n

A: \u201c…Hats\u2026I was just stunned, but\u2026hats would be fun to come back\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alas, another week has flown by and so that means another publication the BA is here! If you\u2019re looking for something fun to do next week, there is an event for you. Humanities Homecoming! What is Humanities Homecoming? Well, it is a gathering filled with current humanities students, their favorite history professors, and karaoke! It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}