Practicing heritage justice: Helping your community decide which historic places to protect from the impact of climate change (and which to let go)

08 March 2022 – David Glassberg

Editor’s note: Our next installment of the “Our Climate Emergency” series highlights David Glassberg’s essay about historical places, climate change, and how to decide whether a site needs to be preserved or not. 

Climate disruption makes it more urgent that public historians engage with their communities to protect places significant to local history and identity from deterioration and oblivion. Read More

Public historians in our climate emergency: an introduction

14 September 2021 – David Glassberg and Donna Graves

Editor’s note: This post begins our year-long series, Our Climate Emergency, co-edited with David Glassberg and Donna Graves. The goal of this series brings together a diverse cohort of public historians, all with different perspectives and backgrounds, to think about the role of public historians and the climate crisis. Read More