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  • Fighting for a better memorial?

    […] projects! Let’s turn to Mirabel’s article. What was your overall impression of it? San Francisco Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street, Mission District, San Francisco. Photo credit: https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women’s_Building#/media/File:San_Francisco_Womens_Building.jpg Permission: CC BY SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode SI: I really love the narrative style of this article. She walks through her process of understanding the role of […]

  • Moms at the myth (Part 1)

    […] Blowfly than the lyrics of earlier lesbian entertainer Gladys Bentley. We were led to Moms at the “Mich” last year by an innocuous comment on Moms Mabley’s Wikipedia page: “She appeared in movies, on television, and in clubs, and performed at the Michigan Women’s [sic] Festival shortly before her death in 1975,” it read.  […]

  • The National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.

    […] disastrous World War I consequences for which the United States shared responsibility. Artist Phillipe Prost’s “The Ring of Remembrance.” Photo credit: Carolin Hahnemann CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikipedia Commons Centennial commemoration of World War I coincided with a racial reconsideration of the American civic landscape that resumed more fervently in the year before the […]

  • Around the Field July 22, 2020

    […] series with “Using CollectionSpace and Mukurtu to support and share NAGPRA-eligible collections” on September 30, 2020 The Smithsonian recorded a workshop on “Adding Women in Science to Wikipedia” and calls for edits to Wikipedia articles on important women in the history of science (webinar took place on June 25, 2020) PUBLICATIONS The American Alliance […]

  • Reflecting on texts: Cervantes's advice for historians

    One of my life goals has long been to read Don Quixote in the original Spanish, and I recently embarked on this monumental, even quixotic, task. 

  • Teaching uncomfortable narratives in public history courses

    […] culture at Misericordia University, she is also network editor-in-chief of H-Material Culture. She can be found online at http://jennifermblack.org/, and on Twitter @blackjen1. Confederate Battle Flag Flying at South Carolina State Capitol, Columbia, SC. Photo by Ken Lund, https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/5811088422, CC BY-SA 2.0. Scott Joplin Historic Site, St. Louis, MO. Photo by Kevin Saff, https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Joplin_House.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.

  • Curating punk rock

    Elvis Presley in his iconic pose. Photo credit: Elvis Presley Music. I was reading in The New Yorker a few weeks ago about the “museumification” of rock music. The article was about an exhibit on the Rolling Stones in New York City, Exhibitionism!, and the curator, Ileen Gallagher, was talking about her experiences at the Rock […]

  • Serving two masters: Questions of audience at the Joseph Smith Documentary Editing Project (Part 2)

    Fish ladder constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers at Bonneville Dam, Columbia River (Photo: Eric Guinther, http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonneville_Ladder.jpg) In my years as a historical consultant, I did several projects for agencies such as the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Much like the church for which I now work, […]

  • Photography and Civil War memory (Part 1)

    Editor’s note: This two-part post  continues our series addressing recent debates over Confederate memory and symbolism in the wake of the shooting of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.  Here is the opening post for the series. As William James gave his oration at the unveiling of the Memorial to Robert Gould […]

  • The public history of the Flint water crisis (Part 1)

    Environmental Racism and Lead Poisoning in Flint I study environmental justice movements, both contemporary and historical. Lead (along with asthma) has been a central urban environmental health issue in the US that hits racial minorities and working-class people particularly hard. Lead is often thought of, for that reason, as an example of environmental racism. Here, […]