“History is an argument we have about the past and what it means for us in the present,” says Sergio González, assistant professor of Latinx Studies at Marquette University, the founding editor of Wisconsin101, a collaborative history project using objects as the centerpiece of understanding, and a dedicated public scholar. As a host of “The Look Back” for Wisconsin Public Television, he engages middle school students in big questions, like why we commemorate some things and not others, and what that means for us as Wisconsinites and as Americans. In this episode, our Human Powered podcast co-hosts talk with González about how a familiar bunk bed can open a conversation with kids about migrant farmworkers, why he is passionate about representation of the Latinx community in our historical record, and what it means to be a public historian.
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