Who Isn’t Afraid Of The Dark: Probing Paranormal Public History

MEGAN CULLEN TEWELL, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

This panel offers an opportunity to discuss the interpretation and implications of paranormal public history, including ethical, financial, social, and environmental considerations. Read More

Sparking Change By Incorporating Music in Public History

ERIC HUNG, MUSIC OF ASIAN AMERICA RESEARCH CENTER

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory
Abstract

Music can help us heal, grow, form community, and open difficult conversations.  Read More

Interpreting the Historic Sites and Legal History of Slavery

WILLIAM KELLY, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

This paper examines the sequence of events that led to Charlotte Dupuy, an enslaved woman, suing outgoing Secretary of State Henry Clay while living at Decatur House in Washington, D.C Read More

Presenting Racial Histories at Predominately White Institutions

JILL FOUND, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

As more historically white and white-majority colleges and universities study their own racist histories, how do they present this past to the public? Read More

Transient Tapestries: Unraveling the Stories of Displaced Communities in Tennessee

DANIELLE SHELTON, MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Social Justice
Abstract

This panel will explore how public history can tell the stories that have been rendered invisible due to displacement. Read More

Institutional Histories & the Construction of Memory

PAIGE MITCHELL, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Social Justice
Abstract

In the Fall of 2018, an exhibit called “A Campus Divided,” which opened at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, caused a stir on campus and in the larger Twin Cities community. Read More

Implications of Monuments in Southern Communities

Alissa kane, middle tennessee state university

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

This presentation will focus on southern commemorative landscapes and the implications of building dominant symbols of collective memory on the physical landscape of communities. Read More

Working in Good Faith: Public Historians and Religious Communities

emily Davis, loyola university of chicago

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel?

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Religion
Abstract

Religion remains an integral part of individuals’ identities and provides a basis to form communities. Faith groups pass on traditions to the next generation of believers and teach outsiders about their community’s past. Read More

Wade Hampton, III Monument and Its Legacy

Fritz hamer, SC Confederate Relic Room and MIlitary Museum

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Memory
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Justice
Abstract

Planter, General and Governor of South Carolina, Wade Hampton, III remains a hero in the minds of some South Carolinians epitomized by his grand statue erected on the State House grounds in 1906. Read More

9/11 and the New-York Historical Society Docent

RONALD BROWN, TOURO COLLEGE

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Government Historians
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

Events following 9/11 unfolded with earth shattering speed. The New-York Historical Society immediately organized an ongoing 9/11 exhibit. Read More