Access to Historical Documents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

Public History for the Public, by the Public: An Exploration of Government-funded Public History Programs

Brandi Burns, Boise City Dept. of Arts and History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Collaborative Conversation

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

Government historians form a fascinating sphere of the public history field. Read More

“Nevertheless, She Persisted”: Preserving Local Women’s History in the Wake of the 19th Amendment Centennial

brandi burns, boise city department of arts & history

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING

  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Place
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

As one of many individuals across the country that worked on the 2020 suffrage commemoration, I would like to propose convening a working group to discuss efforts to continue bringing stories of women to the forefront in our local communities. Read More

Does the NHPA Need to be Fixed?

MICHAEL BINDER, AIR FORCE DECLASSIFICATION OFFICE

Proposal Type

Point-Counterpoint

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
Abstract

The demolition of federally affiliated historic properties without any mitigation — and the resultant loss of more of our history — continues despite the existence of the National Historic Preservation Act.  Read More