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02 August 2022 – Sarah H. Case
commemoration, historic house museums, advocacy, interpretation, The Public Historian, slavery, historic preservation
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2022 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
06 January 2022 – Emma Johansen
This is the second of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society. Part 1 was published on December 30, 2021.
The Bullitt family enslaved over two hundred people at the Oxmoor plantation in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and the Cottonwood plantation in Henderson County, Kentucky. Read More
30 December 2021 – Emma Johansen
Editor’s note: This is the first of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society.
The core component of The Filson Historical Society’s latest digital collection featured a reworking of the Bullitt Family Papers to highlight the people they enslaved, including the Sanders, Green, and Taylor families, among others. Read More
18 November 2020 – James F. Brooks
The Public Historian, campus history, slavery, Indigenous People, historic preservation, TPH 42.4, archaeology, public history, deindustrialization, Editor's Corner
Editors’ note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
23 July 2020 – Maya Brooks 3
When I arrived at the University of West Georgia (UWG) as a graduate research assistant in Spring 2019, I learned that I would be working on a project called Along the Ridge, which connects descendants of enslaved people with the history of their ancestors. Read More
12 May 2020 – Noah Janis
interpretation, race, slavery, historic preservation, commemoration, African American history, public engagement, plantation, community history, North Carolina
A big house. Stately trees. Curious outbuildings. In 1905, Pennsylvania-born tourist Matilda Kessinger marveled at the landscape before her, “something one always reads about but never sees.” After 18 years of traveling the South, Kessinger had finally found the one place that lived up to her romantic ideals of an antebellum plantation. Read More
29 October 2019 – Katherine Astbury and Abigail Coppins
theater, 2019 archives month series, sound, prisoners of war, archives, slavery, incarceration, artists
Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration
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.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. Read More
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
African American history, agricultural history, historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3
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. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.” Read More
20 March 2019 – Kristina Oschmann 4
Hartford series 2019, American Revolution, community history, sense of place, race, slavery, Immigration, American Civil War, 2019 annual meeting
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
Growing up in eastern Connecticut, my thoughts of Hartford were a mix of positives and negatives. Read More