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  • Decolonizing the Digital Literary Canon through Digitizing “Chicory”

    […] why we digitized Chicory, the possibilities of decolonizing digital literary history, and the challenges faced in digitizing recent literary sources associated with resources, copyright, ethics, audience, and accessibility. More than a historical source, Chicory also upends conceptualizations of the traditional poetry canon and the Black Arts Movement poetry canon. Poetry is thought of as […]

  • Science and disability Q&A: Part 2

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    […] thought a lot about how to make your project physically and programmatically accessible to participants and the public. Do you have tips for our readers about introducing accessibility into their own public history work? Did you learn anything new about accessibility while working on this project? JM: The mantra of the modern Disability Rights […]

  • How we grow: Investing in capacity

    […] ability to pursue our goals and values. Right now, the interest earned by the endowment is central to our awards process but also to new diversity and accessibility initiatives. Additionally, it contributes to our efforts to take on the full responsibility for the salaries of our staff. NCPH operates on a very lean annual […]

  • NCPH’s own “Repair Work” at #ncph2019 and beyond

    […] name badges or the conference Program, not realizing that this well-meaning question keeps me up at night (I’m only mostly joking). The problem is primarily one of accessibility. Every new piece of information we include on badges reduces the font size we can use, and because some people have longer names or affiliations the […]

  • Clicking is Learning? Musings on Crafting a Holistic Digital History Pedagogy

    […] and digital literacy. We must understand not only how individuals receive training for these digital environments, but also how the museum situates itself within communities to ensure accessibility and inclusion within these digital spaces. One only has to look at the most recent Pew Research Center study on the use of mobile devices to […]

  • Our Marathon, five years later: Reflections on the work of digital public humanities

    […] University Library Digital Repository Service (DRS). The migration of materials from Omeka to the DRS ensures long-term preservation of materials by university librarians and archivists, improves the accessibility of objects through its search mechanisms and collections structures, and provides the project with an updated interface for 2018 audiences. Long-term preservation was always the goal […]

  • Over-the-hill canes and ideal bodies: teaching disability history as public history

    […] on the project website as a “multisensory” (and it was!) conversation with contemporary art inspired by those objects. Students took notes on design and layout, content, and accessibility. Then, they wrote short critiques of the exhibit in which they incorporated class readings and discussion. Through class discussion and their papers, we talked about language […]

  • Mass collaboration and historical synthesis in “The American Yawp”

    […] They can’t. But with this project, over three hundred historians have tried. It’s difficult–particularly for academics–to write synthetically. We are trained to nurture complexity and readily sacrifice accessibility to do so. How, then, could we respect the winding paths of the profession’s many sub disciplines while still crafting a coherent narrative? Feedback screen for […]

  • Challenging the exclusive past / Challenging my inclusive past

    […] reception; moderated a panel about challenging perceptions of preservation; tried unsuccessfully to attend a panel about women in history and instead participated in a working group about accessibility in historical practice. Day 3: Attended part of a panel on preservation in post-industrial cities, and a full session about programs in Philadelphia that leverage art […]

  • What’s next for AI and public history? You tell us!

    […] a special group no longer seemed necessary. What has lasted from this era of intense focus on the “digital” is a set of increased expectations around content accessibility and an understanding that historical literacy requires more attention to authenticity, sourcing, and iteration than it did before. In a technological era shaped by AI tools, […]