Lessons From the Pauper Graves: The Journey to Memorialize Irish Immigrant Workers Buried in Pauper Graves at 10,200 Feet.
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Individual
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Labor and Economy
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Last September, the Leadville Irish Memorial was unveiled, funded mostly by the Irish government and featuring the names of over 1300 mostly immigrants. Read More
Centering Marginal Places as a Strategy to Examine the Past and Engage with the Present
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- 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
“Guerilla” Public History: Pop-up interpretive interventions
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Working Group
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
I’m hoping to propose a working group that would collaborate on developing a resource of “shovel-ready” pop-up interpretive public history projects – maybe just a zine of project ideas that we can all share among ourselves and utilize in our home spaces. Read More
Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation
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Workshop
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
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- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Oral History
- Place
ABSTRACT
The love of food is universal. Food expresses culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. Some historical interpreters have successfully used colonial foodways and cooking demonstrations at sites of enslavement to break down racist ideologies and engage visitors in honest conversations about slavery in the U.S. Read More
Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Archives
- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums
- Oral History
- Place
ABSTRACT
Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More
Queer History Community Walking Tours as Societal Project
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Advocacy
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Through a program of walking tours on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Close Friends Collective works to build a model of public history that prioritizes community partnership and social dialogue. Read More
Stories and Structures
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Place
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
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How do you encourage support in your community for preserving and maintaining historic structures? This presentation will discuss projects that have engaged the panelists with local community stakeholders and helped them create meaningful connections. Read More
Remembering the Korean War a Different Way
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Individual
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Oral History
- Place
ABSTRACT
Overlooked in the history of challenges to the United States military is the African American experience while desegregating its bases. Read More
Who makes Utah’s past?
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Traditional Panel
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
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- Memory
- Place
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More
Monuments to Death or Life?: Encountering Southern Indigenous Historic Environments of Memory
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Chair/moderator
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Place
- Environment
ABSTRACT
Public dialogue about Indigenous history in the South is overwhelmingly dominated by “Trails of Tears” narratives, particularly as experienced by the Cherokee Nation. Despite more recent scholarly acknowledgement of Native communities who evaded forced removal and continue to live in the South today, many monuments and historic sites continue to present the impression the Native Southern history terminated in the 1830s. Read More