Ignoring the Line: The View from Red States

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

Projects that challenge dominant narratives, present multiple perspectives on difficult topics, and tell the truth don’t necessarily require us to “hold the line. Read More

Holding the Line—or Not—at US Public Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

How have museums that receive public funding held the line—or not—against vocal critics who have demanded significant changes to exhibitions at those museums? 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

My Search for the Real Josiah Henson

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual or Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Government Historians
ABSTRACT

As public historians we have a responsibility to present authentic history, to the public. It is also our responsibility to correct inaccurate information in order not to give a false impression of the past to the public, or to allow the true narrative to be changed by commercial or political interests. Read More

COVID-19 and the urgency to capture its history

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Consulting
  • Government Historians
  • Oral History
RELATED TOPICS

I will present a paper on my consulting work in 2021-22 with a military retirement home in Washington, DC.  The home wanted to capture its immediate history of fighting (their words) COVID-19.  Read More

Go the Distance: Methods and Approaches to Nominations for the National Register

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Consulting
  • Government Historians
  • Preservation
ABSTRACT

This workshop is aimed at both the beginner and mid-career public historian who wish to improve their understanding of nominations and their basic mechanics.  Read More

The Holocaust and Genocide: Proving Atrocities

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

I would like to present on the historical urgency faced during and immediately after atrocities are committed, by focusing on the Holocaust specifically and other recent genocides more generally. Read More

Urgency to Preserve Collective Memory in National Parks

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

The diverse history of the National Parks is widely unappreciated due to the lack of documentation of primary sources. Over the course of the history of the National Parks, there have been integral stories from all different backgrounds and experiences that were not and have not been documented. Read More

“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers

PROPOSAL TYPE

Orphan Paper in need of a wider group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. 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