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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

The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race

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

scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A

Heritage, Refracted

21 February 2019 – James F. Brooks

campus history, photography, heritage, Editor's Corner, TPH 41.1, African American history, The Public Historian, walking tours, slavery, Native American

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

collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place

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

08 February 2019 – editors

public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods

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

01 February 2019 – editors

slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, TPH 40.4, collaboration, MDOC Q&A, museums, Montpelier, scholarship, race, The Public Historian

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, TPH 40.4, collaboration, MDOC Q&A, museums, Montpelier, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery

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

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

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

Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the south (Part 3)

27 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1

politics, race, graduate students, digital media, The Public Historian, preservation, slavery, projects, evaluation, advocacy, public engagement, digital history, publicity, education

In the final post of this series, we consider how the “Slavery at South Carolina College” project has been received. The most important effects have been local. The website has acted as a catalyst that has increased awareness of slavery at the university and an interest among students and faculty in speaking plainly about that history. Read More

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