Preserving Asbury Park’s African American Music Heritage

27 June 2019 – Yvonne Clayton, Melissa Keeling, Kathleen Melgar, Jennifer Souder, and Charles Trott

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.

Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More

Responsible relationships in historical commemoration

11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1

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

What Jack Wore: Incorporating the history of enslaved people at a Pennsylvania farmstead

04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4

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

Apex and Oakland: Partnership for Black History education, part 2

28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer

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

Apex and Oakland: Partnership for Black History education, part 1

21 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer

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

Connecting Clues on the Trail of a Century-Old Black Women’s Club

07 May 2019 – Tiya Miles 1

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