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
Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: Pedagogy, Public History, and Politics
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Participants
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
As we near the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, we are still grappling with how the memory of revolutionary figures like George Washington and other founding fathers, have been preserved and re-thought by public history professionals since the end of the Revolution. Read More
Public History Showcase
PROPOSAL TYPE
Lightning Round
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Participants
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Consulting
- Reflections on the Field
- Most categories apply
ABSTRACT
This rapid lightning round offers a chance for public history practitioners and scholars to showcase a wide range of innovative projects that are shaping and redefining our field. Read More
Working Group on Sharing Best Practices and Challenges of Institutional Slavery Reckoning Projects
PROPOSAL TYPE
Working Group
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Participants
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, many museums, universities, churches, and cities have launched projects to explore and reckon with their histories of slavery. Read More
Digital History and the Semiquincentennial: Bringing the Work of Revolution to the Digital Age
PROPOSAL TYPE
Lightning Round
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Data/Information Management
- Digital
ABSTRACT
The Center for Digital History at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon (CDH) proposes a “Lightning Round” styled session to showcase scholarly digital projects around America’s 250th. Read More
Descendants Illuminate the Unfinished Work of Revolution
PROPOSAL TYPE
Experiential
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
As descendants of the family of William Whipple, a signer of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and of Prince Whipple, an African he enslaved who co-signed the 1779 Petition for Freedom, we facilitate a juxtaposition of primary and secondary sources and spaces of our ancestors to illuminate both existing challenges and promising practices to strengthen public history. 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
Interpreter Professionalization: Public History’s Disenfranchised Front Line
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Labor and Organizing
- Reflections on the Field
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
When the public visits museums and historic sites, their primary conduit is often an interpreter. 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
Out of the Archives: Innovative Methods for Sharing LGBTQIA+ Archives
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable or Lightning Round
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT
This session aims to examine creative methods for sharing LGBTQIA+ history that utilizing growing networks of community and/or museum-based LGBTQIA+ archives. Read More