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  • Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the south (Part 3)

    In the final post of this series, we consider how the “Slavery at South Carolina College” project has been received. The most important effects have been local. The website has acted as a catalyst that has increased awareness of slavery at the university and an interest among students and faculty in speaking plainly about that […]

  • "Sustaining Historic Preservation Through Community Engagement": A conversation continued

    At the 2014 annual National Council on Public History conference in Monterey, several of us came together for a roundtable discussion on “Sustaining Historic Preservation Through Community Engagement.” The roundtable was organized and facilitated by Theodore Karamanski from Loyola University and Kristen Baldwin Deathridge from Appalachian State University. We wanted to discuss the balance between […]

  • Humanities on the move

    Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here. In The Heart of the Matter[1], we learn of the existence of a threat to the humanities. It is not always clear exactly what that threat is, but […]

  • Humanities at the Crossroads: The Indiana case study

    Editor’s Note: This is the fourth piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here. In the past few years, the airwaves have been filled with angst about the state of the humanities, primarily in college and university humanities departments. Humanities at the Crossroads (HAC), […]

  • A side or B side? Postindustrial artisans walking a fine line (Part I)

    On a cold March evening this past winter, my students and I caught a bus from Davis Square, near Tufts University, to attend a public meeting in Union Square, at the other end of Somerville, Massachusetts. Within the generally-pricey Boston real estate market of the past two or three decades, Union Square has remained relatively […]

  • Community archives at a moment of change

    Nearly thirty years ago, a small collective of twenty- and thirty-something LGBT activists in Chicago founded the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives. Active in the Gay Liberation movement and other social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, these grassroots historians collected LGBT materials and reclaimed the past as part of the production of a proud […]

  • In our hands

    Editor’s Note: This is the second piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here. Not long ago I was invited to a small university in California to talk about the crisis in the humanities. When I arrived I was greeted by a professor of […]

  • Historic Sites and the Root Causes of Environmental Injustice

      Editor’s note: This is our third installment of the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series. Historic sites have a critical role to play in advancing environmental and climate justice, using history and place to unlock the root causes of both harm and the ongoing resistance to addressing that harm. Historic sites bring resources […]

  • The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Making consensus matter?

    Since my September arrival in Chile, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights has become a common ground for my historical work, with handfuls of visits to its Center of Documentation for conversations and conferences, and the permanent exhibit. Although not a physical or recovered site connected to human rights violations, it sits squarely in […]

  • #DismantlePreservation: Part I

    Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2021. Sarah Marsom won honorable mention in Excellence in Consulting for her projects Crafting Herstory and #DismantlePreservation. This is part one of a two-part Q&A about #DismantlePreservation. History@Work: Why are you involved in historic preservation? Sarah Marsom: When […]