Staging The Archive: Theatrical Methods for Presidential Library and Museum Engagement Through Betty Ford’s Legacy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Lightning Round

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

This study explores how theatrical techniques can revitalize presidential libraries and museums, using Betty Ford as a case study. Combining expert interviews, fieldwork, and archival research, it argues that performance-based interpretation can bridge archival history and contemporary relevance. Read More

Emerging Methods & Methodologies in Public History Research

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

Public historians are on the cutting edge of research methods. This roundtable examines emerging methodologies in research, interpretation, and narrative construction. Read More

If Everyone’s A Historian

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Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

A conversation (either a roundtable or maybe a working group or possible a weirder format in which we look examples together and discuss them?) Read More

From Regulation to Relevance: Historic Preservation in a Changing Public Sphere

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

With the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, the field of historic preservation was codified and formalized. Read More

One Family at a Time: The Revolutionary Power of Genealogy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Genealogical methods enhance traditional historical research by refocusing our attention to microhistory. Uncovering the secrets of a family’s past is not only personal but is essential to understanding greater historical trends in intimate and complex ways.    Read More

Was the American Revolution a Step Towards Democracy or Defending the Colonists Traditional Liberties

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
ABSTRACT

Was the American Revolution a bold step toward democracy or a defensive tradition? This question has long divided historians reflecting on the complex nature that reshaped the political landscape of the United States. Read More

SpeakEZ: An Automated Tool for Generating Transcripts

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Data/Information Management
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

SpeakEZ is a self-service tool designed at the University of Kentucky that automates the process of creating transcriptions from media files. After uploading, a user can batch run transcriptions, creating several at once. 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

Collaboration and the Work of Revolution: University and Community Partnerships in the Age of Executive Order 14253

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Social Justice
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

My partner, John Marks, curator at Historic Geneva, and I will discuss lessons learned from an ongoing collaboration in which my Critical Museum Studies undergraduate class creates an exhibit for Historic Geneva, a small history museum. Read More

She Spies: The Importance of Female Espionage

PROPOSAL TYPE

Experiential

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

I wish to discuss the female figures of the American Revolution that performed daring espionage activity and risked their lives to help the Continental Army win the conflict. Read More