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18 May 2015 – editors
methods, public engagement, sense of place, interpretation, The Public Historian, historic house museums
12 May 2015 – Rebecca Keller
Editor’s note: This piece is part one of a special online section accompanying issue 37(2) of The Public Historian, guest edited by Lisa Junkin Lopez, which focuses on the future of historic house museums. The contributions in this section highlight the voices of artists who engage with historic house museums as sites of research, exhibition, and social practice. Read More
05 May 2015 – Rhonda Sincavage 2
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
When Madeline Cirrillo Archer published “Where We Stand: Preservation Issues in the 1990s,” she sought to assess the challenges facing a movement that was a quarter-century old. Read More
21 April 2015 – Joe Watkins 1
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Park Service, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, heritage tourism
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance, and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
Growing up as an American Indian boy in Oklahoma, I struggled every April 22nd with “89er Day,” an elementary school mini-holiday that celebrated the 1889 opening of central Oklahoma to white settlement. Read More
03 March 2015 – Natalie Perrin
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, archaeology, cultural resource management
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance, and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
Locations speak to multiple generations, cultures, and time periods. Read More
03 February 2015 – Liz Almlie 1
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance, and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
Eleven years after earning a 1966 PhD in history from Washington State University, J. Read More
06 January 2015 – Leo Vazquez 3
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, urban planning
Editor’s note: The National Historic Preservation Act will turn 50 in 2016. While this is a time to celebrate how the NHPA has transformed public history, it’s also an appropriate moment to convene a national conversation on the Act, its legacy, and its future. Read More
27 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
digital media, preservation, projects, advocacy, public engagement, digital history, publicity, education, politics, race, graduate students, The Public Historian, slavery, evaluation
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
24 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
digital media, projects, digital history, memory, sense of place, human rights, politics, race, graduate students, The Public Historian, slavery
Continued from Part 1.
As well as trying to convey a sense of these enslaved workers as people, the team of graduate students working on the “Slavery at South Carolina College” website also sought to connect this history to the physical landscape. Read More
22 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
digital media, projects, digital history, memory, archives, scholarship, education, human rights, race, graduate students, The Public Historian, slavery
Written on the landscape of the University of South Carolina is an untold yet well-documented story of slavery. Enslaved people constructed the buildings of the university’s antebellum predecessor, South Carolina College, attended to the wants of white students and faculty, and performed countless tasks essential to running the college. Read More