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slavery

What Jack Wore: Incorporating the history of enslaved people at a Pennsylvania farmstead

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

Hartford’s hidden histories

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 6

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 5

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

Heritage, Refracted

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 4

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 3

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 2

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

The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour” Q&A: Part 1

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

Campus history as public history: Interpreting slavery through historical walking tours

20 June 2018 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan

projects, methods, community history, sense of place, collaboration, education, graduate students, slavery, working group, campus

Can campus history be public history? NCPH members and others, both inside and outside of the academy, have been grappling with this question for years, considering the often-fraught town/gown and faculty/administration relationships many of our colleagues face. The ways that we answer this question have changed significantly over the last decade, however, as dozens of colleges and universities have endeavored to reckon with the reality of their histories, many in response to institutional connections to slavery. Read More

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