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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
04 August 2022 – Madeline Hellmich 1
NCPH 2022 awards, digital media, advocacy, social justice, public engagement, community history, collaboration, race
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Madeline Hellmich is the winner of a graduate student travel award.
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which launched in 2001, is the seventh-most visited website in the world. Read More
15 March 2022 – Maria DiBenigno and Jajuan Johnson
campus history, social justice, public engagement, community history, digital history, interpretation, collaboration, museums, African American history
William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and partnership. Many of these sites partnered in W&M’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded grant, Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-Interpret the Past. Read More
08 March 2022 – David Glassberg
preservation, social justice, community history, environment, heritage tourism, climate emergency series
Editor’s note: Our next installment of the “Our Climate Emergency” series highlights David Glassberg’s essay about historical places, climate change, and how to decide whether a site needs to be preserved or not.
Climate disruption makes it more urgent that public historians engage with their communities to protect places significant to local history and identity from deterioration and oblivion. Read More
11 January 2022 – Donna Graves
Editor’s note: Today we share our next installment for the “Our Climate Emergency” series. Donna Graves, one of the editors of this series, investigates her role as a public historian and explores the visual nature of the climate crisis. Read More
07 December 2021 – Braden Paynter
Editor’s note: This is our third installment of the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series.
Historic sites have a critical role to play in advancing environmental and climate justice, using history and place to unlock the root causes of both harm and the ongoing resistance to addressing that harm. Read More
14 September 2021 – David Glassberg and Donna Graves
collaboration, environment, sustainability, climate change, covid-19, preservation, social justice, climate emergency series, sense of place
Editor’s note: This post begins our year-long series, Our Climate Emergency, co-edited with David Glassberg and Donna Graves. The goal of this series brings together a diverse cohort of public historians, all with different perspectives and backgrounds, to think about the role of public historians and the climate crisis. Read More
07 September 2021 – Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler and Paul Schadewald
covid-19, social justice, NCPH 2021 awards, collaboration, activism, digital projects, partnership, communities, community engagement
Editor’s Note: Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy won the 2021 NCPH award for best new book about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, for either 2020 or 2021.
When we submitted final page proofs for Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy in March 2020, we had no idea what was in store for the country. Read More
11 August 2021 – Jennie Chaplin 2
Editor’s Note: Throughout this piece we’ve embedded and linked to the various musical cues that are foundational to Dr. Chaplin’s article. We wanted to provide a direct opportunity to hear Marvin Gaye’s seminal album while comparing it to modern music from Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monáe. Read More