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26 October 2023 – Joseph Plaster
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two parts of a conversation with Joseph Plaster, director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University, who won the 2023 Outstanding Public History Project Award-Small Institution for the Peabody Ballroom Experience. Read More
24 October 2023 – Joseph Plaster
Editors’ Note: Joseph Plaster, director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University, won the 2023 Outstanding Public History Project Award-Small Institution for the Peabody Ballroom Experience. As Plaster explains, “The Peabody Ballroom Experience is a public humanities collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and ballroom, a nearly century-old performance-based network and culture composed primarily of gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color.” Read More
06 December 2022 – Marc Stein and Barry Loveland
In August, the Pennsylvania LGBT History Network completed its latest traveling exhibit, titled Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania College and Universities. The exhibit is currently scheduled for visits at nine locations around the state, including various colleges and universities and LGBT community centers. Read More
02 December 2022 – Marc Stein and Barry Loveland
In August, the Pennsylvania LGBT History Network completed its latest traveling exhibit, titled Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania College and Universities. The exhibit is currently scheduled for visits at nine locations around the state, including various colleges and universities and LGBT community centers. Read More
19 November 2020 – John R. Legg
Q&A, politics, pioneers, LGBTQ history, Indigenous People, methods, American Indians, public engagement, decolonization, media, games, memory, sense of place
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Michael Salgarolo and Kylie Holloway to discuss their Oregon Trail immersive game that brought history and leisure together as a way to experience the US West and challenge the colonial foundations of the famous video game. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
LGBTQ history, intersectionality, advocacy, community history, memory, sense of place, National Park Service
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
11 July 2019 – Katherine Crawford-Lackey
LGBTQ history, digital media, TPH 41.2, advocacy, collaboration, government, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality
Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
09 July 2019 – Melissa Barthelemy 1
graduate students, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, gender, art, LGBTQ history, methods, social justice, public engagement, TPH 41.2, media, speech
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
27 May 2019 – James F. Brooks
This special issue, guest-edited by historian Melinda Marie Jetté and timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, sparked a query among our editorial alumni and archives to identify just when The Public Historian first embraced the lives of LGBTQ people among our public history constituents. Read More
16 May 2017 – Jordan Biro Walters 1
In her 1903 work Social Culture, Annie Randall White encouraged unmarried women over the age of thirty to form domestic partnerships with each other: “Many of our ‘bachelor girls’ live together and are the happiest people imaginable.” [1]
Yet just two years later, Dr. Read More