From Archive to Screen: Documentary Filmmaking as Community-Centered Public History Practice

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This session explores the medium of documentary filmmaking as public history practice by examining topics of community collaboration, shared authority, and institutional tension. Read More

On The Same Team: State Historical Societies and Local Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

This roundtable would, ideally, be a mix of representatives from state historical societies and local history museums discussing how they have collaborated to improve public history in their area. Read More

Revolutionary Displays? Museums, Violence, and the Struggle Against Indifference

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

On April 23, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan opened Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Records of the Armenian Genocide, a temporary exhibition drawing on testimonies from diplomats, missionaries, journalists, and relief workers. Read More

Culture on the Coast: Flooding and History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

The Committee of Environmental Sustainability (NCPH) and its counterpart with AASLH are interested in gathering a round table of organizations, local to Rhode Island or the region, to explore the impact of sea rise of historic resources and older neighborhoods, and more critically, what some resilience strategies might be. Read More

Collaborating in Crisis: Applied and Academic Public Historians in Conversation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

The current U.S. presidential administration is determined to usher in a “revolution” in historical thinking and presentation. Read More

Protests: Radium Girls Changing the Work Force

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Women have historically been silenced in their efforts creating equality. A specific group of working class women fell victim to corporate greed and corruption and decided enough was enough. Read More

Organize the Stacks! Researching Union Action at New York Public Library

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Staff at New York Public Library first gained union benefits in 1917. Today, Local 1930 is part of public employee union DC37, serving 88 branches and three research libraries. Read More

Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Two guardians watch over the front lawn of the Barnstable, MA Superior Courthouse, one on the right side and one on the left. Read More

Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

The Unifying Power of a Historic Preservation Blog

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Ideally, historic preservation of a property should involve all relevant stakeholders, including government professionals, consultants, local residents, amateur historians, and the people who created the historic significance of the property.  Read More