14 March 2016 – editors
Are you a public historian on the tenure track? Do you sit on a tenure and promotion committee, or are you asked to write letters in support of T&P candidates? Do you find yourself working to explain the scholarly nature of public history scholarship to a broader academic audience? Read More
11 March 2016 – Mary Rizzo 4
2015 will be remembered by historians as the year of #BlackLivesMatter, an intersectional civil rights movement that merged direct action, political activity, and social media to force a national discussion around issues of police violence and institutional racism. It’s also pushed to the forefront discussions about diversity in various other kinds of American institutions, from Hollywood movies to Silicon Valley. Read More
10 March 2016 – Eric Gonzaba
Every morning, we wake up and open our dressers or closets to find something to wear. If you’re anything like me, the selection is usually the first thing you grab as you wipe your heavy eyes and question whether it was worth staying up to watch an extra hour of Netflix the night before. Read More
09 March 2016 – Jason Allen
"Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton" responses, art, race, The Public Historian, TPH 38.1
The American narrative, like any cultural narrative, consists of stories that structure and assign meaning to the nation’s origin, history, and existence. In theory, this narrative can link Americans who have experienced genocide, slavery, and white privilege. But for people descended from enslaved peoples, this narrative has instead been used to conceal the inconvenient truths of systemic historic and current racial injustice and inequality. Read More
08 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Truth and lies in Ontario; gravestones and cemetery monuments in Illinois; and a slew of new books and journals. Read More
07 March 2016 – Meghan Gelardi Holmes
My grandmother was well into her seventies by the time I was old enough to share in one of her favorite activities. We would meet at Penn Station and take the bus uptown to visit the newest show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read More
04 March 2016 – editors
Environmental Racism and Lead Poisoning in Flint
I study environmental justice movements, both contemporary and historical. Lead (along with asthma) has been a central urban environmental health issue in the US that hits racial minorities and working-class people particularly hard. Lead is often thought of, for that reason, as an example of environmental racism. Read More
02 March 2016 – Sharon Leon
digital history, The Public Historian, TPH 38.1, "Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses, public engagement
Andrew Hurley’s article, “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology,” begins with the launch of the Virtual City Project in 1999 and brings us up to the present moment. In that span of time, Hurley and his colleagues at the University of Missouri-St. Read More
01 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history posters in Bogotà, conference on slave dwellings in South Carolina, reflecting on collections in Manchester, U.K. and preserving/promoting them with National Endowment for the Humanities grants Read More
29 February 2016 – Adina Langer
theater, popular culture, methods, public engagement, memory, museums, oral history, music, exhibitions
My recent review of the Georgia Social Studies Standards, as part of my work at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, galvanized my desire to reflect on the importance of the Broadway musical, Allegiance, which tells the story in fictionalized form of George Takei’s family’s experience in internment camps during World War II. Read More