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11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. Read More
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.” Read More
28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
The Public Historian, methods, public engagement, TPH 40.3, community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series, museums, education, race
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. This is part 2 of a two-part post written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, with questions posed by History@Work editor Adina Langer (AL) and answers given by Deborah Strahorn (DS) of APEX Museum and Marcy Breffle (MB) of Historic Oakland Cemetery. Read More
21 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
memory, Black museums series, collaboration, museums, education, The Public Historian, methods, TPH 40.3, public engagement, community history, African American history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. The piece, written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, considers the collaboration between these two institutions around the interpretation of African American history within the context of the emergence of the field of Black Museums described in Jeff Hayward and Christine Larouche’s article “The Emergence of the Field of African American Museums” and African American history more generally. Read More
16 May 2019 – Sonya Laney
museums, education, race, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, African American history, NCPH 2019 Awards
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Sonya Laney received the New Professional award.
In 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown took the train from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the rural town of Sedalia, North Carolina. Read More
07 May 2019 – Tiya Miles 1
Black museums series, teaching, community engagement, TPH 40.3, training, African American history, race, Higher Education, The Public Historian, libraries, gender
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
There are multiple paths to the collaborations we value as historical interpreters and practitioners. Read More
18 April 2019 – Josh Howard 2
practice, public engagement, 2019 annual meeting, collaboration, African American history, education, NCPH 2019 Awards, consultants, race, labor, National Park Service
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Josh Howard of Passel Historical Consulting received the individual “Excellence in Consulting” award. Read More
21 February 2019 – James F. Brooks
TPH 41.1, African American history, The Public Historian, walking tours, slavery, Native American, campus history, photography, heritage, Editor's Corner
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian (TPH) editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the February 2019 issue of TPH here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More