Hidden Costs of History

Julie Hawks, Doctoral Student, American University

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Panel

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  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

History museums that portray war tend to focus on brave soldiers and technology without problematizing battle scenarios or revealing how people and environments are adversely affected. Read More

Death and Display, Bodies and Boundaries

Katie Stringer Clary, Public History Instructor

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Roundtable

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  • Civic Engagement
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

This roundtable explores the ethics, public reactions, and responsibilities of pubic historians in the display and exhibition of human remains. Read More

The Persistence of Feme Covert: Uncovering Women’s History at House Museums

Brian Whetstone, Student, Hastings College

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Panel

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  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

At historic house museums across the United States, the lives of women remain covered in traditional interpretive narratives. Read More

Interpreting the Body: Sex, Reproduction, and Reproductive Labors in Public History

Danielle Dulken, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Structured Conversation

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  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Teaching
Abstract

Public historians have established the profession is tasked with interpreting celebratory histories as well as complicated, sometimes painful narratives that have contributed equally to our past. Read More

Unpaid Labor: A new perspective on American history and getting the history out that will change America

Clifton Berry, Member, Unpaid Labor LLC

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Working Group

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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Material Culture
  • Teaching
Abstract

Our topic: 1) the indispensable contribution of the first 12 generations of Americans of African descent (1607-1865) to the U.S. Read More

Repeat Photography: Understanding our Place through Sequential Observation

Craig S. Campbell, Dr, Youngstown State University

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Pecha Kucha

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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

About 1950, George R. Stewart, Professor of English at Berkeley, photographed many different types of landscapes along Highway 40. Read More

From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou

Sade Turnipseed, Executive Director / History Professor, Khafre, Inc / MVSU

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Panel

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  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

By studying the cotton plantation system of the Old South and operations owned by Joseph and Jefferson Davis, juxtaposed t o the self-determined agency of Benjamin Montgomery, and how Davis Bend became what was considered an “imagined community” in the historical township of Mound Bayou. Read More

George Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: Historic Preservation and the Industrial Midwest

Rebekah Beaulieu, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University

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Panel

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  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
  • Place
Abstract

The Midwest became the epicenter of the American industrial sec tor atthe end of the 19th century. Self-made entrepreneurs, such as Frederick Pabst of Milwaukee’s Pabst Brewing Company, erected lavish homes to showcase their societal rise and elite status, which continue to serve as beacons of industrial-era prosperity. Read More