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grassroots

Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore

17 October 2023 – GVGK Tang

projects, public engagement, sense of place, archives, storytelling, project showcase, community archives, grassroots, urban renewal

Kin/Folk/Lore (KFL) is a community-led history project that uses grassroots storytelling to incite meaningful dialogues across cultures, generations, and localities in Philadelphia. Participant-audiences forge unlikely connections while considering changing landscapes, core values, and hopes that define their lives—past and present. KFL’s collection exists as a free, publicly accessible digital oral history database, exhibit, and album series. Read More

Changing public history in Atlanta and beyond

03 November 2022 – Adina Langer 1

covid-19, grassroots, 2023 Annual Meeting, NCPH 2023 awards

As a member of the Atlanta Local Arrangements Committee for the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), I have an unusual opportunity. By revisiting the work we did to prepare for a meeting that didn’t happen in 2020, I am able to chart how the ensuing two years have changed public history in Atlanta and beyond. Read More

New NCPH Grassroots Award to Support Non-Traditional Public Historians

22 February 2022 – Stasia Tanzer

NCPH 2022 awards, grassroots

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is excited to announce the creation of a new award: the NCPH Grassroots Public History Award. This award reflects NCPH’s commitment to acknowledging the many different kinds of work public historians do and the wide array of places we do it, particularly outside of large and predominately white institutions. Read More