Tag Archive
24 February 2020 – John R. Legg 1
It was a hot, scalding day in Georgia, and I was traveling to a large plantation southwest of town to photograph a wedding. When I arrived at the former plantation, there was a long driveway which led to the Big House—a prominent white structure at the center of the property. Read More
06 February 2020 – Jennifer Dickey 1
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18 through March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
“A city lay in travail, God our Lord, and from her loins sprang twin Murder and Black Hate. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
memory, sense of place, National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality, advocacy, community history
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi
advocacy, Native American, methods, Indigenous People, social justice, environmental history, public engagement, memory, food, sense of place, interpretation
Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.
I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More
18 October 2019 – Kayla Duncan and Adina Langer 2
Editors’ Note: When the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, in April 2018, grassroots Community Remembrance was built into the project’s DNA. This Q&A between History@Work lead editor Adina Langer and Kayla Duncan discusses the work of the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition, an organization in Fulton County, Georgia, dedicated to earning an EJI-designated monument for Fulton County. Read More
10 October 2019 – Donna Baker and Sarah Calise
archives, scholarship, race, Confederate memory series, rapid response, 2019 archives month series, social justice, community history, memory
Editors’ Note: This is one post in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
02 July 2019 – Tyler Rudd Putman 2
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I’ve been reflecting on the work of journalist Tony Horwitz, who died suddenly on May 27th. Horwitz’s 1998 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, had a profound impact on American popular culture, public history, and on my own personal and professional life. Read More
28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series, museums, education, race, The Public Historian, methods, public engagement, 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. 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
21 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
methods, TPH 40.3, public engagement, community history, African American history, memory, Black museums series, collaboration, museums, education, The Public Historian
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
18 March 2019 – Rebecca Furer
memory, sense of place, international, consultants, gender/sexuality, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019
Editor’s note: This is the second 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.
My bicycle rattles and bounces over the cobblestones in my neighborhood, and I take a quick glance behind me to make sure none of the groceries have fallen out of the basket. Read More