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  • Project update: Clio’s new features

    Clio is a nonprofit humanities organization that connects users to nearby history and culture through a free educational website and mobile application that hosts individual entries, tours, and trails. Clio is also designed for instructors to use in the classroom to teach the skills of doing history and to promote the work of scholars to […]

  • Exploring History While Social Distancing: Campus Tours and the Clio App

    The ways we preserve history for the benefit of future generations has changed enormously in the digital era. Yesterday we raised statues and planted roadside markers. Today we utilize the vast potential of the Internet to preserve history with online platforms. The COVID-19 crisis has further demonstrated the value of these digital resources for public […]

  • Barrier-free access to the ghosts of Gallaudet

    As the days grow darker and the leaves start to turn, the atmosphere lends itself to spooky stories. Like other colleges, Gallaudet University, the world’s only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf and hard of hearing students, has its share of ghost stories. The university president’s house, for example, has the reputation of being […]

  • History museums in a wiki world

    […] a much wider audience. By contributing new information to Wikipedia articles, cultural institutions are not only providing new content through in-exhibit technology, but are also increasing the accessibility to their collections with a global audience on the most widely used online encyclopedia. More practically speaking, at a time when museum budgets are continuing to […]

  • The NPS Disability History Handbook: Collaboration, process, and community

    […] 2017, I have delighted in learning from, and contributing to, the interpretation of U.S. disability history. The intersections of public and disability history underscore the importance of accessibility, inclusion, and representation of people with disabilities in the places we work, visit, commemorate, and live. As a graduate student and fellow with the National Park […]

  • Join Meeting? Conferencing During COVID-19-Part 1

    […] to develop “thank you” banners, short introductory videos, raffles, and other creative ways to encourage conference-goers to engage with sponsors. As we consider the future of conferencing, accessibility and equity must play key roles in the conversation. For nearly a decade, NCPH members have been giving serious consideration to prioritizing sustainability, going so far […]

  • The role of curatorial work in our two pandemics: part 1: A hospitable institutional context

    […] time for institutions to form a detailed strategy for going back to work in a culture that is actively anti-racist. Though it has focused on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) more broadly, the process undertaken by Chicago Children’s Museum over the last four-plus years is instructive. The two staff members who have led […]

  • Identifying and filling silences in a COVID-19 archive

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    […] ways to support them. Current partners include the African American Museum of Nassau County, the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, and the Northwest Immigrants Rights Group. Third, accessibility is a significant theme in project design and outreach. For us, accessibility means re-tooling the “Share your story” form to make it easier to submit items, […]

  • Request for Proposals: NCPH Seeks to Fund Virtual Projects and Programming

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    […] too does the amount we can draw from it each year to fund crucial initiatives identified in our 2017-2022 Long Range Plan related to diversity and inclusion, accessibility, and professional development. That money is earmarked for the annual meeting. For example, it often subsidizes speakers or exhibitors who are Black, Indigenous, and people of […]

  • Artificial reality is the likely future of preservation

    […] that people so often feel at physically preserved sites. Researchers at the University of Sheffield argued that VR can revolutionize and transform the cultural model toward inclusion, accessibility, education, and democratization of heritage. Is VR truly the “ultimate immersive experience”? Maybe this is true of the most sophisticated immersive reality systems, but we are […]