A History Revealed: The Inventions of Minnie Eureka Young

• Main Author: Williams, Erin Colleen
• Format: Others
• Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2007
• Subjects: museums; museology; heterotopia; history; victorian; science; genealogy; inventors; Arts and Humanities; Fine Arts
• Online Access: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/99; http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=etd_retro

With my thesis work I question the evidence of history and how this evidence is read. I examine the theory of fractured history and alternate history, two examples of how perception of the past is completely altered when the science of reality is merged with imagination and mystery. As a vehicle for this examination, I use my own family history, something I am familiar with on many levels but also completely foreign to. As a curator of the story of my own history, I ask, "How can we know what is real?" and "If I say it is real, does that make it so?"