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community engagement

Baseball bridges classroom and community

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

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

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

Places of Refuge, Keepers of Memory

16 May 2018 – Ashley Maynor

The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, rapid response, community engagement

Editor’s note: This is the final post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”

In 2018, tragedy is visible, impossible to ignore, and happening all the time and all across the globe as History@Work’s series of posts and The Public Historian’s roundtable have so deftly illuminated. Read More

Making meaning from ashes—the development of the Victorian Bushfires Collection

02 May 2018 – Liza Dale-Hallett

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Editor’s note: This is the fifth post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”

The Black Saturday Bushfires are the worst natural disaster in Australia’s recorded history. Read More