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  • Making Public History More Accessible During Times of Uncertainty

    […] sites moving forward. For my own work with the National Park Service, the importance of creating accessible visitor experiences and educational programming has never been more important. Accessibility in public history, broadly defined, allows for more visitors to better use, understand, and appreciate the role of history in their daily lives. On the one […]

  • Making (virtual) conferences accessible

    […] spring of 2020, I have attended over a dozen virtual conferences, including two NCPH annual meetings. As a visually impaired person, I was worried about online conference accessibility, including eye fatigue and reading power points and posters. Some were fairly accessible and others were not. Though I can only speak for myself, I have […]
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    Beyond descendant outreach: authentic engagement through increased accessibility in the Kith + Kin project

    […] University of Virginia. Other institutions, like Duke University and Clemson University, have established archival collections centered on documenting enslaved people. Organizations, like the Georgetown Slavery Archive prioritize accessibility to their collections through digitization. These varied approaches all redress archaic methodologies. However, inequity and objectification still linger among some of our best efforts at amelioration. “The […]

  • Reflecting on a More Accessible Digital Public History Lab for the Future: Part 2

    […] as with any type of virtual conference, there were plenty of challenges to work through as well. Some of the biggest concerns we had were related to accessibility, engagement, and flexibility. Icon for W3C markup validation service necessary to check if a website meets formatting and accessibility standards. The DPHL team is grateful to […]

  • Climbing the hill: access and opportunity at the Met Cloisters with Dr. Julia Perratore

    […] Dr. Perratore explains the labor of access—that is, the work of expanding her museum’s audience and the process of becoming an individual who has influence over how accessibility initiatives look. My interview with Perratore explores how labor is tied to the tension between loving museums as public spaces and the difficult, highly competitive journey […]

  • Access for all

    […] of all abilities is good public history practice and opens up our capacity to pursue truly democratic and collaborative work. The basic starting point for thinking about accessibility is the federal Section 508 standards. Originally published in 2000, these standards are in the process of being refreshed to reflect the recommendations of the W3C […]

  • Introducing Nicole Belolan

    […] practice public history, so I won’t do too much more defining and just add that some of the core values I hold as a public historian include accessibility, inclusion, advocacy, transparency, professionalism and, of course, collaboration. I think everyone has something to bring to the table when it comes to history. Can you tell […]

  • Reflecting on a More Accessible Digital Public History Lab for the Future: Part 1

    […] interest moved beyond the typical definitions of digital public history that I had come to know. As a graduate student, I shifted my focus further toward the accessibility of digital tools to museums–particularly small, local historical societies. Yet, I found it difficult to break into digital public history. It felt like I was either […]

  • Interpreting our Disabled Heritage: Disability and the National Park Service

    […] and Photographs Division (Washington, D.C.). Public Domain, Accessed 16 February 2021, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016817048/. The decision to develop this bibliography resulted from conversations between my supervisors with the NPS Accessibility Program and National Historic Landmarks Program, Chief Historian Dr. Turkiya Lowe and Staff Historian Dr. Lu Ann Jones. Together they agreed to lay the foundations for […]

  • Are the digital humanities exclusive?

    Editors’ Note: This is the final of four essays in a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Andrew Urban at Rutgers-New Brunswick. The purpose of this post is to […]