Editor’s note: Our next installment of the “Our Climate Emergency” series highlights David Glassberg’s essay about historical places, climate change, and how to decide whether a site needs to be preserved or not.
Climate disruption makes it more urgent that public historians engage with their communities to protect places significant to local history and identity from deterioration and oblivion. Read More
Editor’s note: Today we continue the “Our Climate Emergency” series with a post by Melody Hunter-Pillion that centers oral history methods as a way to battle climate change.
“It’s different and it’s more severe . . . I’m not the scientists, but I can definitely tell you, it’s happening.”
Editor’s note: Today we share our next installment for the “Our Climate Emergency” series. Donna Graves, one of the editors of this series, investigates her role as a public historian and explores the visual nature of the climate crisis.Read More
Historic sites have a critical role to play in advancing environmental and climate justice, using history and place to unlock the root causes of both harm and the ongoing resistance to addressing that harm. Read More
Curatorial Work in Our Climate Emergency: Guiding Principles
Editor’s Note: In our second installment of the Our Climate Emergency series, Elena Gonzales recommends initiatives to engage visitors in museum spaces about the broader climate emergency.
There are more museums in the world than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined, and museums are the most trusted source of information in the U.S. Read More
Editor’s note: This post begins our year-long series, Our Climate Emergency, co-edited with David Glassberg and Donna Graves. The goal of this series brings together a diverse cohort of public historians, all with different perspectives and backgrounds, to think about the role of public historians and the climate crisis.Read More
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