Author Archive
24 September 2024 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
Editor’s Note: Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is the 2024 winner of the G. Wesley Johnson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding article appearing in the The Public Historian during the previous volume year, for her article “‘People First’: Interpreting and Commemorating Houselessness and Poverty,” The Public Historian Vol 45, No 1. Read More
04 February 2019 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan 4
In his Congressional Gold Medal acceptance speech from 2013, Dr. Muhammad Yunus quipped that one day “soon we will visit the museum to see poverty.” Given that public historians interpret and document other social ills in museums and historic sites— sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism—where does poverty and its attendant questions of class fit in our interpretive plans? Read More
20 June 2018 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
projects, working group, methods, campus, community history, sense of place, collaboration, education, graduate students, slavery
Can campus history be public history? NCPH members and others, both inside and outside of the academy, have been grappling with this question for years, considering the often-fraught town/gown and faculty/administration relationships many of our colleagues face. The ways that we answer this question have changed significantly over the last decade, however, as dozens of colleges and universities have endeavored to reckon with the reality of their histories, many in response to institutional connections to slavery. Read More