Queer History Community Walking Tours as Societal Project

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Through a program of walking tours on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Close Friends Collective works to build a model of public history that prioritizes community partnership and social dialogue. Read More

Accessible NCPH

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

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

For several years, DEAI/IDEA (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion) initiatives have become more prominent, promoting inclusion for many marginalized communities. Read More

“Working on the Pipeline” – Stories of Latine Leadership, Mentorship, and Representation in NC

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

In 2023, the bilingual New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Oral History Archive launched a new and ongoing series of interviews focused on Latine leaders in North Carolina. Read More

Throwing Bricks and Building Bridges: Creating Solidarity Between University-based Scholarship and Secondary Educators for LGBTQ+ History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

Using our experience coordinating NEH-funded Teaching Institutes on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States, we propose a roundtable or panel to promote the benefits of partnerships and solidarity between public historians and educators at secondary and post-secondary institutions who value inclusive educational approaches and want to counter the harmful impact that current restrictive legislation and intimidation-based campaigns have on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ topics in curriculum. Read More

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