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tours

Riding the 1919 Chicago Race riots: biking across divides to confront the past

19 October 2020 – Bradford Hunt

methods, NCPH 2020 awards, social justice, public engagement, community history, memory, sense of place, race, tours

Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Chicago 1919 Project, organized by the Newberry Library, was the 2020 recipient of the Outstanding Public History Project Award. Read More

Public history students and city history tours: A collaboration

20 June 2019 – Rachel Gross

collaboration, tours, urban history, teaching, projects, interpretation

Every week throughout the summer, small groups of residents of Missoula, Montana, meet at Caras Park near downtown for history tours called “Unseen Missoula.” One important contributor to the development of the tour program has been the public history students of the University of Montana. Read More

Local Knowledge and Public History

13 June 2019 – Dean Herrin

tours, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, Indigenous People, American Indians, maritime history

During the annual meeting of the National Council for Public History in Hartford in March, I had the good fortune to be on the tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, and of Mystic Seaport, both in eastern Connecticut about an hour’s drive from Hartford. Read More

Behind the velvet rope: Revealing process with museum tours and programs

13 August 2014 – Ken Turino 1

museums, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, pulling back the curtain, historic house museums, tours

Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process-how we choose the stories we tell. Read More