“Inside the Counting House”: the Brown Brothers records and serving new communities in digitized archives
Thomas Lannon, New York Public Library
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- Archives
- Digital
- Labor and Economy
- Public Engagement
Abstract
In 2017, The New York Public Library received a CLIR Hidden Collections grant to digitize the historic records of the mercantile firm and bank, Brown Brothers & Co. Read More
The Racial and Class Politics of Industrial Heritage
Steven High, Concordia University
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- Place
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Much of the scholarship has focused on industrial heritage sites with little regard for their relationships with area residents. Heritage may have a vital role to play in recognizing the industrial past and in countering enforced forgetting, but is the politics of recognition enough? Read More
Reinterpreting Tilden
allison horrocks, national park service
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Abstract
For more than sixty years, Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage has been widely relied upon by many historical interpreters as a classic, benchmark text on how to work with the public. Read More