Telling Histories of Radicalism in Less-Than Radical Places #ncph2017 #s56
Participant statements for #ncph2017 #s56 roundtable are in. "Telling Histories of Radicalism in Less-Than Radical Places." Sat 10:30. 🔥🔥🔥
— Devin V. Hunter (@dvhunter) April 14, 2017
Arriving in Indy tomorrow night, excited to add #wmnhist/#histgender Qs to Saturday's roundtable organized by @dvhunter! #ncph2017 #s56 pic.twitter.com/7SmpoVfDIt
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 18, 2017
#s56 at 10:30 today — in short: I have feelings? about #wmnhist? #ncph2017 https://t.co/DxmOtwPup1
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
w/colleagues talking Jewish socialists, Southwest (US) "fantasy Spanish pasts," mining radicalism, the IWW, Catholic archives #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
To kick off the last day of #NCPH2017 I'll be at #S56 "Telling Histories of Radicalism in Less than Radical Places."
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
#s56, it's getting pretty radical in here #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
#ncph2017 #S56 participants: @dvhunter @1dan_ott @chelsea @monicalmercado Robert M. Lambeth, Frank G. Perez, and Daniel Walkowitz
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
.#S56 #ncph2017 Each presenter will speak very briefly and then will engage in a conversation. Idea originated in conversations at NCPH2016
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Panel originated in discussion around interpretation of New Harmony #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855791776090771456
Some key questions: What is radical? How are we using the term? Is it romanticized? Over used? #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 1: Daniel Walkowitz (NYU)
Walkowitz: talk from his upcoming book Jewish Heritage as Remembered, interested in forgotten lost world of Jewish Socialism #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855792517253607424
Walkowitz: Goes to 11 cities, 8 countries, looking for evidence of his grandmother's socialist Yiddish world #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Radical history: either history of radicals or interrogations of power structures or both – Walkowitz #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: When you ask what is a radical interpretation about the past you interrogate systems of power and inequality. #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: Erasure of the socialist history is an erasure of women's history and the erasure of his grandmother. #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855792926231756800
#s56 opens up with a project on tracing the radical Jewish past – and socialism #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz's work is reminding me of one of my fav books, Everything is Illuminated, and its disc of the rel btwn past & prsnt #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: His journey was a path followed by his family from shtetl to diaspora and back again #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz:Most Jewish history is reduced to Holocaust tourism #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Reduction of Jewish heritage tourism to Holocaust tours; socialist history forgotten- Walkowitz #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: in many places Jewish history is displaced by Holocaust memory, but in some places traces exist. #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855793535542493184
Radical = recovering obliterated pasts. That's math I can do #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: Shows image, old Jewish owned factory in Poland now a shopping mall owned by a French company. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Fascinating point from Daniel Walkowitz that Jewish history in 11 cities around globe heavily focused on Holocaust tourism #s56 #NCPH2017
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855794012929839105
Walkowitz: small museum in mall, but history of labor strikes there has been displaced by a story of Polish entrepreneurship #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: there are surprising nooks and crannies where one can insinuate a story that has been obscured or erased #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
"One can be surprised where one finds alliances in books and crannies" against oppression- Walkowitz #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Perhaps a Q: how do we apply the 'power of place' to places with many histories, interpreted as single history? #s56 #ncph2017 https://t.co/MJqLmoz4xs
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 2: Frank G. Perez (University of Texas – El Paso)
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855794719275847681
Frank Perez/UTEP: childhood memory of his father using the label "colonizer" to apply to what others consider a local hero. #s56 #ncph2017
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Perez: Moved from El Paso to New Mexico, found ppl identified much more with Spanish cult than Mexican #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Perez: Project in El Paso to commemorate imp ppl in city history; picked European men. #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855795081193934848
1988: 12 statues proposed for El Paso– all proposed to portray European/white men in 86% Latin@ city-Pérez #s56 #NCPH2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Frank Perez discussing controversies in monumentation & at El Paso, TX, specially colonizer Juan de Oñate. #S56 #NCPH2017
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
Perez: Discussing the whitewashing of Juan de Onate, heroic myth of who conquistadors were #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Celebration of first Thanksgiving (before Pilgrims!) commemorates Oñate's "meeting" (conquering) native people around El Paso #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Perez @utep Juan de Onate completely mythologized as a Spanish noble. This obscures Mexican-American heritage of the region #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Also Oñate and Cesar Chavez share one highway (laughter rolls around #s56) #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Perez: Effort to commemorate Euro-Americans in El Paso diminishes city's Current Chicano status #S56 #NCPH2017
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
Perez: El Paso has the Juan de Onate and Cesar Chavez Hwy. What a combo! #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Border Highway is now Cesar Chavez-Juan de Onate Border Highway, one pacifist and one violent conqueror @utep #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855796358019784704
Perez: Ppl objected to the restoration of the de Onate statue fountain bc it would waste water; city has 5 golf courses #ncph2017 #s56
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
How does this fantasy heritage impose Spanish Heritage on El Paso that the community does not embrace or identify with @utep #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/vg_hensley/status/855796820538216449
El Paso's Mexican American heritage is ignored for a false Spanish heritage that does not reflect community. #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 3: Monica Mercado (Colgate University)
.@monicalmercado @colgateuniv has been on friends board of Women's Rights NHP in Seneca Falls #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855796959516426240
https://twitter.com/monicalmercado/status/855799298843455488
https://twitter.com/monicalmercado/status/855799365948067840
@monicalmercado discussing the challenges of interpreting gender, race, sexuality intersectionally at hist sites #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
.@monicalmercado sites of women's history still struggle to discuss concepts of gender, race, class, etc. #S56 #NCPH2017
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
For many women's history sites, suggesting broader more inclusive interpretation of women is still "radical." #S56 #ncph2017 @monicalmercado
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
It's a fight to recognize women in monuments, how do we keep that history radical (advocating for POC and 🏳️🌈)? – Mercado #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855797708656963584
Challenges include funding, interest, etc #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
Mercado looking ahead to women's suffrage centennial celebrations near her (Colgate U) #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Between @colgateuniv and Seneca Falls can talk about "radical" pasts, in burned over district #ncph2017 #S56 @monicalmercado
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855798062056386560
Can public programming with eye toward tourism and building financial support be true to "radical" pasts? #ncph2017 #S56 @monicalmercado
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
@monicalmercado Sympathy to sites like Seneca Falls; interp lags in part bc of cuts/staff shortage/vols in place of staff #ncph2017 #s56
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
What's so radical about women's suffrage history any way? #ncph2017 #S56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
"Is suffrage a moment we (radical historians) want to claim?" @monicalmercado #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855798466550824960
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855798473052041216
"If it's the moment for women's history, what do we do with it"- @monicalmercado #ncph2017 #S56
— Mary Mahoney (@MaryMahoney123) April 22, 2017
@monicalmercado Is the history of suffrage truly radical? Is this The Moment in women's hist like marketing suggests? #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
I'm here bc I keep thinking about many #wmnhist convos and backchannels @ncph meetings over the last few years. #ncph2017 #s56 https://t.co/61Fbz60cWa
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Presenter question: What's so radical about the (public) history of (women's) suffrage? Anyone? #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
.@monicalmercado Can we use commemoration for radical interpretation? 2020 is the moment for women's history. What do we do? #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
This is my suffrage conundrum! #s56 #ncph2017 https://t.co/m0cpicnQfI
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 4: Devin Hunter (University of Illinois-Springfield)
.@dvhunter Participant in Mount Olive, IL, exhibit on Mother Jones. Co-curating with people inspired by Jones #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Rotating display featuring self-ID'd descendants of M Jones to make contemporary connections #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
.@dvhunter started his work with educators' unions and created an exhibit about Mother Jones inspirational value #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
As I organized my #ncph2017 #s56 remarks I was thinking of my favorite #publichistory presentations, such as @CuppaCourtney's in 2016. https://t.co/MPXnHWfVUY
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
.@dvhunter working in Mt. Olive, IL to get the Mother Jones museum up and running. I don't imagine that to be a radical place #s56 #NCPH2017
— Nick Sacco (@NickSacco55) April 22, 2017
Miss you, @CuppaCourtney! #ncph2017 #s56 https://t.co/eIS4wU5Ofj
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Educators connected to idea of fighting an anti-labor governor, made an explicit connection to past #ncph2017 #S56 @dvhunter
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Another 2016 conversation that I cite in my thoughts about histories of women & gender at #publichistory sites, @_Spare_Rib. #ncph2017 #s56 https://t.co/n9eedZ9ys9
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
New Mother Jones Museum exhibit to go up while @dvhunter is on strike #s56 #ncph2017
— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 22, 2017
.@dvhunter will likely be installing Mother Jones exhibit while on strike! Relevance is visceral. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
.@dvhunter: "this exhibition will probably go up when I'm on strike" w/faculty union. Yup, #everthinghasahistory. #s56 #ncph2017 https://t.co/jDHDXNR1mK
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 5: Robert Lambeth (University of Montanta)
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855800052341764098
Lambeth trying to figure out how to bring history of the Wobblies in SE Washington State through makers, digital platforms #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: unearthing agricultural component of IWW in NW US #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: 1915 price of wheat exploded; farmers in Washington State became extremely wealthy. IWW wanted to capitalize on this #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: Spokane was the hub for the IWW, defense league offices, organizers were there. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Strikes during WWI high 🌾 prices. Mechanized farming largely ended farm strike power #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Which makes it tough for current connections #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: WWI wheat strikes organized by Wobblies = martial law, strong anti-labor sentiment. The history not well received #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: Wondered why start dealing with WWI labor agitation when there are also other under represented histories in region? #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
How to focus on WWI labor history when area native history is non-existent #dilemma #priorities #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: Trying to do radical labor history in conservative area means there is not enough desire. (But there sure is need) #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Lambeth: struggling with issues of reception and audience. Has not made a community based connection #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855801936968331265
Lambeth: Also struggling with issues of location, where to put historical signage when places are difficult to identify #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/vg_hensley/status/855802129063305217
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855802298806804481
Common thread of panel so far; when radical history has limited social/political capital, what do you spend it on? #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 6: Chelsea Denault (Loyola University Chicago)
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855802438544224257
Denault: project comes out of archival work at diocesan archives in Chicago #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
.@Chelsea_Denault working with a closed collection and beginning to think about a hypothetical project #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
.@Chelsea_Denault imagining the radical potential of Catholic #archives and activism in Chicago–one of my favorite topics! #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
"Separatists groups of priests." You have my attention #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Archdioscese of Chicago: there was radicalism among individual priests and parishes on social justice @Chelsea_Denault #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855802782863024129
Activism of diocese and outside clergy on behalf of racial justice and advocacy for immigrants. #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Is there a role for public historians in facilitating dialogues among church communities?@Chelsea_Denault as history mediator #s56 #ncph2017
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
.@Chelsea_Denault what is the public historian's role in facilitating dialogue in religious context about social justice #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
These narratives = opportunities for dialogue between rad/less-rad groups within church and archives #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855803352994729984
How do we tell radical stories that come from less than radical institutions? Like the church? #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Also raises questions about role of interns (Denault was one when she found this stuff) #ncph2017 #s56
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
.@Chelsea_Denault made me nostalgic (bad historian) for St. Clements in Chicago where I learned about social justice #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Roundtable Speaker 7: Dan Ott (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire)
"God give me the confidence of a mediocre white man" #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
"God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man" #s56 #ncph2017
— Rebecca Jacobs (@rebeccarunsabit) April 22, 2017
.@1dan_ott fired from a previous job because he wanted to radicalize story of Homestead Act, presented as celebration at site #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Ott: fired for trying to reinterpret NPS site; fired up about this! #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
"Not trying to do radical history; trying to do GOOD history" #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855804264140201987
.@1dan_ott Wanted to do environmental history, racial/gender analysis of Homestead Act. But site did not want to get woke. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Dan is going OFF about all the themes/stories that could be told but aren't. WE NEED SUPPORT! #s56 🔥🔥 🔥 #ncph2017
— Emily Esten (@sheishistoric) April 22, 2017
Individual historians at the Park level are not protected or supported by NPS mandate. @1dan_ott #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
"NPS feels protected from 45 but doesn't mean anything for individuals at remote sites" – Ott #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
.@1dan_ott found himself doing history in a less than radical setting, and he found he could not change the context #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
NPS sites get federal money to do radical history; don't always follow through – Ott #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
.@1dan_ott Intellectual freedom not valued beyond academia; he was not protected; radical history cannot be done head-to-head #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855805037477548036
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855805084847964160
Can't start with "you're wrong"; gotta start where people are -Ott #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Surpising thing to @1dan_ott is that the National Park Service is a less than radical context. #ncph2017 #s56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/clairebaire_/status/855805512612548608
.@NickSacco55 asks re: monumental/memorialization: does this person deserve honor? Do they represent values of the community? #ncph2017 #s56
— Emily Esten (@sheishistoric) April 22, 2017
.@DDMeringolo adds: Academia also often a less-than-radical place #s56 #ncph2017 https://t.co/8KgLl7yK4n
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855807324220510208
https://twitter.com/kristamccracken/status/855804635369664513
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855807900836667393
Roundtable converation threads:
Almost all the presenters in #s56 have questioned their own knowledge or radicalism. Makes this panel very relatable #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Returning to a theme from #s51, volunteers often move a site to the right (@monicalmercado) #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
…or, towards the 'great woman' histories many public historians have worked hard to get interpretation away from?
#ncph2017 #s56 https://t.co/zpsRkSCD9S— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
This leaves behind important work @WomensRightsNPS has done to center #radroots such as Haudenosaunee women in our region, #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Comment from the Audience: Anger may be constructive, it certainly is appropriate #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: gotta be careful about using terms like "fantasy heritage"; have to avoid smug denial of public's truth #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: must be careful about how we get our stories out. Must be careful with language. Come from place of understanding. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
We have to be careful of how we tell radical stories. Need to give a voice to the other side of the issue. #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
Don't be an elitist. Work with your community and build audiences #ncph2017 #s56
— Theresa Cramer (@TAndScones) April 22, 2017
Walkowitz: Recognize publics and audiences as "us." Build a public. Find interested people. Allow them to take the lead. #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
We have to be respectful AND radical, because not being respectful makes people defensive and locks out voices #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Build a public that wants to hear your story and incorporate reflection places in exhibits. #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
Create your audience! (Find the people who care through outreach). Being radical is also about radical museology. #s56 #ncph2017
— Rebecca Jacobs (@rebeccarunsabit) April 22, 2017
And lest you think this is easy, there's a generational aspect as well #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
.@monicalmercado brings up the age/generational issues around these narratives, esp. w/ her work @ women's history sites #s56 #ncph2017
— Emily Esten (@sheishistoric) April 22, 2017
.@monicalmercado has found students –woke or not– do not connect to suffrage story, "There are women. They are racist." #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/monicalmercado/status/855808820240666626
Panel reiterates for me importance of public history educators having real experience as practitioners. Radical = contextual. #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
@DDMeringolo and then convincing depts to hire them, honor that work. Such a vicious cycle. Does it have to be? #ncph2017
— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 22, 2017
Yes. But I think having experience in public practice helps us articulate the value of that work, tiresome though that is. #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Also some uncertainty about how to radicalize history in public comes (in part) from trying to export scholarship to public #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Difference bw left academy and right heritage and pubhist in the middle #theme #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Also some uncertainty about how to radicalize history in public comes (in part) from trying to export scholarship to public #S56 #ncph2017
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
Are "hidden histories" a different subject than "radical histories," asks Walkowitz? #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Thought: where do populist histories (sometimes left, some right) fit here? Or Progressive eugenicists? #sidenote #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
We keep coming back to monuments and markers – what is it about them? Hmmm…thinking similar thoughts to the IHB tour #s56 #ncph2017
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
"Everyone gets woke at a different pace…if at all." #s56 #ncph2017
— Emily Esten (@sheishistoric) April 22, 2017
In order to address radical history – focus on the process and building the public. #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
"We talk as if we're one public history; what about when you're marked as a radical by skin or gender?" 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼#s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Everyone gets woke at a different pace. #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/jessie_cortesi/status/855812560616124416
Panel generated good conversation among practitioners and scholars, trying to find productive radical space between us. #ncph2017 #S56
— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 22, 2017
An important point from @HistorianHope in the #s56 discussion. #ncph2017 https://t.co/Ks4JEQ89Yb
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Radical left and KKK not equivalent #s56 #ncph2017 #truthbombs 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Why is it noon? #s56 is 🔥🔥🔥 right now #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
@HistorianHope reminds us of the complexity of the field, that each public historian's practice is different. #ncph2017 #s56 https://t.co/tB9z5nMaVz
— Dr. Chelsea Denault (@Chelsea_Denault) April 22, 2017
Keep reminding myself, though, that #ncph2017 is a super self-selected people; how do we take these conversations beyond the choir #s56
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
How do I bottle the energy and inspiration from #s56 so I can draw on it when I leave #ncph2017?
— Austin Clark (@thealtacademic) April 22, 2017
Thank you! #s56 #ncph2017 https://t.co/jscAKU5dk5
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
We normalize the radical right but the fighting back of the left leads to being labeled as radical through history #ncph2017 #s56
— Marianna Luquette (@MariannaPiazzaa) April 22, 2017
Back to #s38, reminder from Walkowitz of repression of pubhist in Poland RIGHT NOW #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Have to be unapologetic in working on radical history. Understand there are risks #s56 #ncph2017
— Rebecca Jacobs (@rebeccarunsabit) April 22, 2017
Closing thoughts from audience: #publichistory work involves risk. #ncph2017 #s56
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
Q to Devin: if you strike, how can we support you? A: stay in touch. #s56 #ncph2017
— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 22, 2017
Thanks to everyone who participated in #ncph2017 #s56 and to @dvhunter for setting it up. Great audience, great convo. I'm spent.
— Dan Ott (@1dan_ott) April 22, 2017
Thx to @dvhunter for organizing #s56 and to all of you for coming out and having a great conversation with us. Will @Storify soon! #ncph2017
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
You guys while I was speaking on #ncph2017 #s56 my mom was at a quilt show in upstate NY and texted this: pic.twitter.com/nHQ2x2M0lr
— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017
After Storify announced they were discontinuing their services in 2018, NCPH preserved these Storifies on our website.