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Access to Historical Documents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

Monuments to Death or Life?: Encountering Southern Indigenous Historic Environments of Memory

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Chair/moderator
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Environment
ABSTRACT

Public dialogue about Indigenous history in the South is overwhelmingly dominated by “Trails of Tears” narratives, particularly as experienced by the Cherokee Nation. Despite more recent scholarly acknowledgement of Native communities who evaded forced removal and continue to live in the South today, many monuments and historic sites continue to present the impression the Native Southern history terminated in the 1830s. Read More

Bridging the gap between end-of-life care and public historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

By 2030, according to an oft-reported statistic, one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older. Read More

Can You Hear Me Now? Effective Section 106 Consultation for Public Historians

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Local governments, tribes, nonprofits, and the public are increasingly asked to comment on federal activities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Read More

Black People Did Dope S@*#: New Ways I Found Their Voices and My Advocacy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Pecha Kucha

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

In the twenty-first century, curation, exhibition, and historic preservation has been part of an evolution. Since the 2020 social reckoning, historical and cultural institutions across the country pivoted in using ways to tell different stories about the injustices against African Americans. Read More

Empowering the Public History Workplace: Information, Advocacy, and Salary

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Economy
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

From Amazon unions to Covid layoffs American employees are talk about pay, and public history professionals are no different. The growing effort among art museum employees to speak honestly and openly about pay and other workplace issues, challenges public history professionals to act likewise. Read More

Our Collective Journey – Honoring our Past, Visioning Our Future

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest

RELATED TOPICS

  • Advocacy
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice

DESCRIPTION

As LGBTQ people we  have endured many forms of institutional oppression, discrimination, bias, and physical violence. Our true history is often not accurately reported. Read More