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11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration, TPH 40.3, African American history, 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.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. Read More
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history, historic sites, 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. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.” Read More
20 March 2019 – Kristina Oschmann 4
community history, sense of place, race, slavery, Immigration, American Civil War, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, American Revolution
Editor’s note: This is the third 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.
Growing up in eastern Connecticut, my thoughts of Hartford were a mix of positives and negatives. Read More
01 March 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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
22 February 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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
21 February 2019 – James F. Brooks
The Public Historian, slavery, photography, heritage, Editor's Corner, TPH 41.1, African American history, walking tours, Native American, campus history
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian (TPH) editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the February 2019 issue of TPH here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
15 February 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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
08 February 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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
01 February 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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
25 January 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, museums, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, TPH 40.4, MDOC Q&A, Montpelier
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