Learning through the Act of Creation: Students, small case exhibits, and the power of historical thinking

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel (90 minutes) or Individual (30 minutes)

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

One of the challenges facing public historians is communicating the importance of history and historical thinking to the general public. Read More

Surf’s Up!: Using the CESU to Create a New Multiple Property Document for Sites Associated with the History of Surfing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This roundtable will discuss an innovative multi-year CESU funded collaboration between the National Park Service Preservation Partners Program, the UNLV Public History Program and Sea of Clouds a non-profit preservation organization focused on coastal landscape and surfing history preservation and interpretation. Read More

Space for Slowness: Time and Labor in Public History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Consulting
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As public historians, how might we use our understandings of different time scales to make space for the difficult-to-quantify work of public history? Read More

Access to Historical Documents

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Consulting
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks to identify the increased decline in access to record holdings and then explore ways that researchers can halt and reverse this decline. Read More