From Storage to Story: Activating School Archives for Public Engagement and Student Learning

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Preservation
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

School archives are often underutilized, viewed as repositories rather than active tools for public history. This session explores how school-based archives can be transformed into sites of engagement, interpretation, and community connection. Read More

Holding the Line Through Story: Teaching Communities to Document Their Own History Before It Disappears

PROPOSAL TYPE

Workshop

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Preservation
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

This workshop teaches storytelling as a public history practice — giving communities, particularly veterans and historically marginalized groups, a structured framework to document their own narratives before those stories are lost, flattened, or erased by institutional forces. Read More