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  • Teaching Public History Online: A Report From This Summer’s Working Group

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    […] Participants shared information from their own universities or repositories and identified digital tools and resources that could be useful. The resulting materials we compiled included guidelines for accessibility, course organization, and internship placement and oversight, as well as a list of open-access digital tools, apps, collections, and training sessions on pedagogy and related topics. […]

  • Remote collaborations: remaining connected while collecting and preserving history

    […] resources with research. For example, one student compiled a spreadsheet of other COVID-19 collecting initiatives, tracking local and global outreach and engagement strategies. Another student increased the accessibility of existing IC oral histories and digital collections with relevant research and adding collection metadata.  In May and June, students collaborated to edit and modify the […]

  • Around the Field June 24, 2020

    […] Institute of American History on “The History of American Protests” Pre-recorded video series, “Watch & Talk,” from the American Alliance of Museums’ on “Evaluation in Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Work” and “Building Millennial Audiences” PUBLICATIONS The Museum Scholar published their third installment of Theory and Practice: The Emerging Museum Professionals Journal, “Museum Futures: […]

  • How We Grow: Making Connections

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    […] that is not just available and accessible but also actively engaged with membership. One of the best things the Endowment does is provide money for the conference accessibility fund. NCPH is for everyone, and by making the conference accessible we continue to show that public history matters and cannot exist without those who engage […]

  • Doin’ it for the Gram: How Baltimore’s Chicory Revitalization Project uses Instagram to Engage the Public

    […] navigation was not intuitive, and its capacity to offer interpretation was minimal. We realized that low utilization of the site was likely not an issue of digital accessibility, but one of user awareness and feasibility. Simply put, digitization was just the first step. We needed a way to facilitate public interaction with Chicory’s offerings […]

  • Meeting people where they are: Reinterpreting Freeman Tilden

    […] and foster an appreciation for the study of history outside the classroom. If I could expand upon Freeman Tilden’s interpretive principles, I would stress the importance of accessibility, inclusion, and outreach beyond the confines of a site’s boundaries. I would also stress the importance of better interpretation at historic sites that is informed by […]

  • An experiment for generation Y: "aMUSE: Exhibits Unleashed"

    […] through the front doors of the museum? At the St. Catharines Museum, one of the major problems that we have related to visitation from the community is accessibility. We are physically and financially accessible (we offer admission by donation), but unfortunately we are not geographically accessible. Our location along Lock Three of the Welland […]

  • Documenting the Undocumented: Archiving and recording the refugee experience

    […] professionals represent. At UEL we are continuing this work by working on projects to explore opportunities to increase the digitisation of our collections as a means of enhancing accessibility. We are also working with community partners on potential new archival deposits and funding applications to help support the collection of oral histories from refugees who […]

  • Building “The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook”: A working group

    […] into the ways public historians work. The completed Handbook, which will be free and open to all users, will contain 100-150 entries on topics such as “ Accessibility,” “Activism,” “Civic Engagement,” “Diversity and Inclusion,” “Heritage Tourism,” “Historic House Museums,” “Historic Preservation,” “Intersectionality,” and “Material Culture.” The entries will be listed alphabetically and clustered using […]

  • Reading the artifact: From inquiry to interpretation

    […] physical artifacts feasible and even necessary for museum goers? These are not easy questions to answer; indeed, the debate about the necessity of physical objects versus the accessibility of digitized images is still lively. But if our experience with the little Canadian Beauty Rangette showed us anything, it is that “hands-on” exploration, including the […]