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14 May 2020 – James F. Brooks
Editor's Corner, race, The Public Historian, TPH 42.2, music, commemoration, Immigration, public history, heritage tourism
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online free through June 2020, courtesy of the University of California Press, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
27 June 2019 – Yvonne Clayton, Melissa Keeling, Kathleen Melgar, Jennifer Souder, and Charles Trott
The Public Historian, music, commemoration, TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, race
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More
23 March 2016 – David Dean
performance, music, theater, TPH 38.1, "Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton" responses, The Public Historian
Public historians have spent a good deal of time looking at how history is performed in museums and living history sites, in reenactments, and on film and television. Theatre, opera, and musicals have received far less attention, and one reason for this might be that these forms of representation are often thought of as elitist.[1] Read More
29 February 2016 – Adina Langer
museums, oral history, music, exhibitions, theater, popular culture, methods, public engagement, memory
My recent review of the Georgia Social Studies Standards, as part of my work at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, galvanized my desire to reflect on the importance of the Broadway musical, Allegiance, which tells the story in fictionalized form of George Takei’s family’s experience in internment camps during World War II. Read More
24 June 2013 – David Rotenstein 1
Back in February I wrote about some of the challenges of donating old interviews done during graduate school in the 1990s for newspapers to the Atlanta History Center’s archives as oral histories. After some interesting attempts to get release forms signed more than 20 years after the interviews were done and more than a few collisions with data rot, the donation was completed in June. Read More