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collaboration

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

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

museums, education, race, The Public Historian, methods, public engagement, TPH 40.3, community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series

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

public engagement, community history, African American history, memory, Black museums series, collaboration, museums, education, The Public Historian, methods, TPH 40.3

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

Reflecting on “Our Only Alma Mater”

18 April 2019 – Josh Howard 2

National Park Service, practice, public engagement, 2019 annual meeting, collaboration, African American history, education, NCPH 2019 Awards, consultants, race, labor

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

Baseball bridges classroom and community

22 March 2019 – dann j. Broyld and Chelsea E. Echevarria 1

Hartford series 2019, sports, community history, sense of place, collaboration, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.

Five years ago, the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) public history program began a partnership with the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) Museum & Library in Hartford to produce exhibits with its museum studies graduate classes. Read More

Building “The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook”: A working group

19 March 2019 – Will Walker, Modupe Labode, Bob Weible, Sheila Brennan, Bill Bryans, and Kimberly Springle

2019 annual meeting, digital media, AASLH, projects, methods, collaboration, NCPH, conference, inclusion, working group

For the past three years, a group of dedicated authors, editors, and advisory committee members have been working to create The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, a new digital resource co-sponsored by NCPH and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Read More

How we grow: Camping Con

11 March 2019 – Anne Mitchell Whisnant

collaboration, environment, NCPH, conference, NCPH endowment, sense of place

One of the best things about NCPH is its openness to experimenting with new approaches to fostering conversations among public historians and facilitating reflection about public history. The NCPH “mini-con” program of small, topically focused regional gatherings, supported with funding from the NCPH endowment, epitomizes this agile and creative spirit. Read More

Veterans’ perspectives, and the great task remaining

08 March 2019 – Jessica L. Adler

collaboration, museums, education, government, oral history, projects, veterans, methods, NEH, memory

Army nurse Norma J. Griffiths-Boris returned from Vietnam not just with haunting memories of unpreventable death—smells of burned flesh, sights of traumatic head wounds—but also with a powerful impression of her non-traditional work environment. At war, she and fellow nurses held positions of authority. Read More

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 6

01 March 2019 – editors

slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian

Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will learn more about what went into the new permanent exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour (MDOC) at James Madison’s Montpelier (JMM) in Virginia. Read More