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campus history

Shared Work: William & Mary’s Highland and The Lemon Project

15 March 2022 – Maria DiBenigno and Jajuan Johnson

public engagement, community history, digital history, interpretation, collaboration, museums, African American history, campus history, social justice

William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and partnership. Many of these sites partnered in W&M’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded grant, Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-Interpret the Past. Read More

Call-and-respond to my name, Clemson

21 September 2021 – Rhondda Thomas 1

social media, African American history, campus history, Higher Education, NCPH 2021 awards, archives

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

Editor’s Corner: Burdens Borne, and Raised

18 November 2020 – James F. Brooks

deindustrialization, Editor's Corner, The Public Historian, campus history, slavery, Indigenous People, historic preservation, TPH 42.4, archaeology, public history

Editors’ note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More

Remote collaborations: remaining connected while collecting and preserving history

08 October 2020 – Samantha Sauer

campus history, covid-19, 2020 Archives Month Series, digital collecting, archives, oral history

Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history in the age of COVID-19 that will be published throughout October, Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More

Heritage, Refracted

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