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11 November 2021 – Tiffany Momon, Torren Gatson and Victoria Hensley 1
Editors’ Note: This is the second of two Q&A posts about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive. The first post was published on November 9, 2021.
History@Work: What role can all public historians play in elevating stories of Black craft?
Torren Gatson: Public historians serve as the new vanguards of treasured and overshadowed histories. Read More
09 November 2021 – Tiffany Momon, Torren Gatson and Victoria Hensley
Editors’ Note: This is the first of two Q&A posts about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive.
History@Work: Tell us a little bit about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive (BCDA). What inspired you? How and when did you get started? Read More
21 September 2021 – Rhondda Thomas 1
archives, social media, African American history, campus history, Higher Education, NCPH 2021 awards
Editor’s Note: Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University by Rhondda Robinson Thomas received an honorable mention for the 2021 NCPH award for best new book about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, for either 2020 or 2021. Read More
09 March 2021 – James Newberry
The second of two installments in a series exploring the development of the “Our Side of the Tracks” exhibit at Doyal Hill Park in Acworth, Georgia. Part One described the origins of the project, starting with the partnership between Kennesaw State University’s Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books and the city of Acworth, Georgia, as well as providing background on developmental changes over the past 40 years in Acworth’s historically Black neighborhoods. Read More
02 March 2021 – James Newberry
The first of two installments in a series exploring the development of the “Our Side of the Tracks” exhibit at Doyal Hill Park in Acworth, Georgia, Part One describes the origins of the project, starting with the partnership between Kennesaw State University’s Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books and the City of Acworth, Georgia, as well as providing background on developmental changes over the past forty years in Acworth’s historically Black neighborhoods. Read More
18 February 2021 – Felicia Jamison 1
I first became interested in public history as a child. My church often had events that celebrated Black history. And at least once a year, my schools would create bulletin boards highlighting the achievements of African Americans. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I knew that I wanted to teach courses that explored how this history has been taught in public spaces. Read More
29 December 2020 – Mary Biggs
Editors Note: How do historical sites reckon with landscape within interpretive plans? Mary Biggs joins us to explore how one former plantation space in North Carolina uses the landscape on which formally enslaved people worked and lived to reconceptualize visitor experience at that site. Read More
06 August 2020 – Jan Levinson-Hebbard
projects, methods, collaboration, race, labor, incarceration, theater, African American history, 2020 annual meeting, NCPH 2020 awards
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Jan Levinson-Hebbard of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia received an honorable mention for the Outstanding Public History Project Award. Read More
23 July 2020 – Maya Brooks 6
When I arrived at the University of West Georgia (UWG) as a graduate research assistant in Spring 2019, I learned that I would be working on a project called Along the Ridge, which connects descendants of enslaved people with the history of their ancestors. Read More
04 June 2020 – Alaina Roberts 3
commemoration, African American history, Native American history, tulsa, anniversaries, racial violence, television, commemoration series
When HBO’s Watchmen aired on October 20th last year, it introduced millions of Americans to the explosive episode of racial terror that gripped the black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 30th to June 1st, 1921. The TV show dramatizes how white Americans used guns and even makeshift bombs to destroy millions of dollars in property and murdered an estimated 100 to 300 African Americans over the course of three days (the “aftermath” of which is pictured here). Read More