A Virtual Walking Tour in Decatur, Georgia: Linking Race, History, Community
10 September 2020 – David Rotenstein
collaboration, race, public engagement, community history, walking tours, digital history, covid-19, sense of place, teaching public history
I teach a seminar on ethnography and community engagement in Goucher College’s graduate historic preservation program. Last year, I took my students to Baltimore’s Otterbein neighborhood, a historic district and one of the nation’s earliest urban homesteading neighborhoods.[i] The COVID-19 pandemic pushed our summer term online and that meant no class field trip to Baltimore, an annual program tradition. Read More