Decolonizing the Digital Literary Canon through Digitizing “Chicory”

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Editor’s note: This is the second post in a three-part series on the Chicory Revitalization Project.   

In my first post in this series, I argued that Chicory, a community poetry magazine from Baltimore in the 1960s, could be a valuable resource for public historians seeking the perspectives of regular people, particularly working-class African American young people, about the tumultuous era they lived through. Read More

Around the Field, December 18, 2019

From around the field this week: The Climate Heritage Network announces action plan; the Society of Architectural Historians and the Historic American Buildings Survey are accepting fellowship applications; AASLH offering live webinars in January; and Theory and Practice is accepting papers for Summer volume. Read More

All Poetry to the People! Black Arts Movement Poetry as Public History

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Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part series on Baltimore’s Chicory Revitalization Project. 

Following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, black visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors, and poets conceptualized themselves as part of the Black Arts Movement, a black nationalist political and aesthetic project. Read More

Managing social media, doing public history

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This summer, a team of National Council on Preservation Education (NCPE) interns oversaw the National Historic Landmarks Program’s social media accounts and explored firsthand how the creative chaos of shared social media management can be harnessed as a productive outlet for engagement and interpretation. Read More

Around the Field December 4, 2019

From around the field this week: The Newberry Library is offering short-term fellowships; AASLH seeks nominations for Leadership in History Awards; National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting to be held March 8-10; and The Tenement Museum is hosting a panel discussion on im/migrants. Read More

Excavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, part 2

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Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.

I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More

Excavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, part 1

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The Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan have called Ringwood, New Jersey, home for centuries. The surrounding landscape features iron mines, Native American rock shelters, and a forest that provides food for hunters and foragers. But it also contains a stew of different chemical toxicants from the former Ford manufacturing plant, deep pockets of contaminated soil, streams that now flow with orange water, and the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. Read More