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