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07 October 2020 – Marla Miller and Sarah A. Leavitt
preservation, memory, commemoration series, sense of place, environment, government, human rights, politics
The Rio Grande slows to a trickle as it turns north. It’s hardly a picturesque spot, here on the banks of one of the continent’s longest rivers. The scrub is sporadic, the trees are low, and heavily armed security forces from two nations watch you closely. Read More
10 September 2020 – David Rotenstein
race, public engagement, community history, walking tours, digital history, covid-19, sense of place, teaching public history, collaboration
I teach a seminar on ethnography and community engagement in Goucher College’s graduate historic preservation program. Last year, I took my students to Baltimore’s Otterbein neighborhood, a historic district and one of the nation’s earliest urban homesteading neighborhoods.[i] The COVID-19 pandemic pushed our summer term online and that meant no class field trip to Baltimore, an annual program tradition. Read More
08 June 2020 – Laurie Arnold and Leisl Carr Childers
A long time ago, in fall 2019, before a global pandemic rearranged our world, we began drafting the 2021 National Council on Public History annual meeting theme and extending invitations to serve on the program committee. We were looking forward to bringing the conference back to the West, a West entirely distinct from both Las Vegas and Monterrey, and to building a conference around place and narrative. Read More
14 April 2020 – Steven Bishop
At 11:00 p.m. on Friday, January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union (EU). After three and a half years of national debate and division since the Referendum on British membership in the EU, the first chapter of “Brexit” concluded. Read More
31 March 2020 – Laurie Arnold
manhattan, community history, cherokee, sense of place, lenape, public history, 2021 annual meeting, theater, Indigenous People, native americans, methods
It’s been five years since Hamilton: An American Musical debuted at the Public Theatre in New York, a notable moment for numerous reasons, not least of which was the ensuing (and ongoing) clamor among Americans for tickets to see a musical about history. Read More
24 February 2020 – John R. Legg 1
It was a hot, scalding day in Georgia, and I was traveling to a large plantation southwest of town to photograph a wedding. When I arrived at the former plantation, there was a long driveway which led to the Big House—a prominent white structure at the center of the property. Read More
19 February 2020 – Kathryn E. Wilson
Immigration, 2020 annual meeting, Atlanta Series 2020, demographics, community history, sense of place, government
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18 through March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
You may be surprised to learn that one of the largest Hindu temples in the United States is located just outside Atlanta, and that the city is home to the second-largest Bhutanese community in the country. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
sense of place, National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality, advocacy, community history, memory
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
09 January 2020 – Dillon Maxwell 8
In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote, “There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe.” The saw works across years to pull out “little chips of facts”; the wedge splits wood into collective views; the axe lops limbs for the “peripheral rings of the recent past.” Read More
03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi
advocacy, Native American, methods, Indigenous People, social justice, environmental history, public engagement, memory, food, sense of place, interpretation
Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.
I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More