Grassroots memorialization in Atlanta, Georgia: A conversation with the leader of the Chattahoochee Brick Company Descendants Community

31 March 2022 – and 1

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Editor’s Note: On December 6, 2021, the Atlanta City Council adopted legislation to purchase the former site of the Chattahoochee Brick Company (CBC) from the Lincoln Terminal Company, a corporation specializing in fuel transportation. The site had been leased by Norfolk Southern Railway, which had abandoned plans to use the location as a train-to-truck terminal facility when a coalition of local organizations—including Groundwork Atlanta, Proctor Creek Stewardship Council, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Riverwalk Atlanta, and others—protested this planned use. Read More

Around the Field March 23, 2022

23 March 2022 –

From Around the Field this week: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History accepts award applications; the Slave Dwelling Project calls for proposals; the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University offers virtual programs. Read More

Shared Work: William & Mary’s Highland and The Lemon Project

15 March 2022 –

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William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and partnership.  Many of these sites partnered in W&M’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded grant, Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-Interpret the Past. Read More

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 –

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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

Around the Field February 23, 2022

23 February 2022 –

From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History calls for responses to survey; the National Endowment for the Humanities accepts applications for several grants; Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment calls for abstracts. Read More

New NCPH Grassroots Award to Support Non-Traditional Public Historians

22 February 2022 –

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The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is excited to announce the creation of a new award: the NCPH Grassroots Public History Award. This award reflects NCPH’s commitment to acknowledging the many different kinds of work public historians do and the wide array of places we do it, particularly outside of large and predominately white institutions. Read More

Oral histories battling climate change

15 February 2022 –

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Editor’s note: Today we continue the “Our Climate Emergency” series with a post by Melody Hunter-Pillion that centers oral history methods as a way to battle climate change. 

“It’s different and it’s more severe . . . I’m not the scientists, but I can definitely tell you, it’s happening.”

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Digital public history as folk music hootenanny: Part 3—Toward a multimodal Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

10 February 2022 –

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The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, discovered in the silent archives of Northwestern University Libraries Special Collections repository (Part one) and digitally developed through collective effort (Part two), now features a fully-searchable, open-source online archive and a digital exhibit that introduces themes and materials to aficionados and newcomers alike. Read More