{"id":2135,"date":"2014-08-04T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/?page_id=2135"},"modified":"2014-08-06T21:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T01:51:16","slug":"documentary-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/prophets\/documentary-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A View From Inside \u2014 Documentary History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent way to undertake a people&#8217;s history is to give readers a wealth of primary source material. In this way, the people who were part of STH&#8217;s history can speak for themselves. These two sets of documents will give the reader a greater sense of what was actually going on at B.U. roughly one hundred years ago. Not to be missed in this section is the 1912 yearbook, which includes a great wealth of wit and humor. In particular, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/poetic-memories\/\">poetic musings<\/a> of the editor make for a delightful and often curious read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/a-bit-of-fun-at-sth\/\">A glimpse of STH before the &#8220;Great War.&#8221; The 1912 Yearbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/sth-faces-the-twenties\/\">Facing the 1920s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent way to undertake a people&#8217;s history is to give readers a wealth of primary source material. In this way, the people who were part of STH&#8217;s history can speak for themselves. These two sets of documents will give the reader a greater sense of what was actually going on at B.U. roughly one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6222,"featured_media":0,"parent":1015,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2135\/revisions\/2137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}