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climate emergency series

Practicing heritage justice: Helping your community decide which historic places to protect from the impact of climate change (and which to let go)

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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

Oral histories battling climate change

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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.”

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Historic Sites and the Root Causes of Environmental Injustice

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Editor’s note: This is our third installment of the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series.

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

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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

Public historians in our climate emergency: an introduction

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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