Author Archive
16 May 2018 – Ashley Maynor
Editor’s note: This is the final post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
In 2018, tragedy is visible, impossible to ignore, and happening all the time and all across the globe as History@Work’s series of posts and The Public Historian’s roundtable have so deftly illuminated. Read More
05 February 2018 – Ashley Maynor 3
rapid response, community history, The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, disaster planning, condolence collecting
Editor’s note: This is the first post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
When the Virginia Tech tragedy took place in April 2007, I was an adjunct at Virginia Tech (VT) and the general manager of an art house movie theater that touted itself as the “heart of Blacksburg”—located just steps from the Drillfield, VT’s version of a quad. Read More