Access to Historical Documents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