Collaborating in Crisis: Applied and Academic Public Historians in Conversation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

The current U.S. presidential administration is determined to usher in a “revolution” in historical thinking and presentation. Read More

Anniversary as Eulogy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

Anniversaries are often an opportunity to celebrate key figures and moments in history and to reflect on their significance to our present. Read More

Los Charros: Changing Landscapes and Preserving Traditions

PROPOSAL TYPE

Open to Feedback

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
ABSTRACT

We’d like to present on our work on the history of the Asociación de Charros Los Costeños de Brentwood and their cultural home at Contra Loma Regional Park in Antioch, CA.  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

Amplifying the Field Trip Experience: Integrating Audio Recordings into On-Site and Classroom Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Audio recordings offer powerful ways to connect students with history, deepen learning during field trips, and extend engagement into the classroom. Read More

Angolans in Maine

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
ABSTRACT

I wish to present about the Angolans in Maine Oral History Project. The project has two aims: a) to hear from Angolan immigrants about why they decided to emigrate to the U.S. Read More

Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

Two guardians watch over the front lawn of the Barnstable, MA Superior Courthouse, one on the right side and one on the left. Read More

Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More

Centering Marginal Places as a Strategy to Examine the Past and Engage with the Present

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Memory
  • Place
ABSTRACT

This panel presents three projects that center marginal places to engage audiences in discussing current societal tensions, divisions, and contested visions of the past. We are interested in two interconnected questions. Read More