Gendered Politics and Commemoration | Mercy Otis Warren and Her Brother: A Case Study in the Gendered Politics of Commemoration
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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
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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- Labor and Economy
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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
“Guerilla” Public History: Pop-up interpretive interventions
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Working Group
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- Memory
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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
The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey
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The Alliance Colony, located in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey, was an agricultural community formed by Jewish families fleeing oppression and violence in the Russian Empire. Read More
The Unifying Power of a Historic Preservation Blog
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Ideally, historic preservation of a property should involve all relevant stakeholders, including government professionals, consultants, local residents, amateur historians, and the people who created the historic significance of the property. Read More
Understanding Immigrant Voices: University and Community Collabortion in Translation
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- Digital
- Museums/Exhibits
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- Teaching and Training
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To collaborate on a new exhibition gallery, the Madison County (IL) Historical Society worked with students and faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to develop a grant-funded digital StoryMap on immigration in Madison County. Read More
Food for Thought: foodways as a tool for racial reconciliation
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Workshop
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- Material Culture
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
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- Place
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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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- Archives
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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
Strengthening Community Well-Being Through Public History
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- Material Culture
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This session will present and discuss several projects that are deeply rooted in community-centered work. It will highlight projects that are:
- Prioritizing collaboration work that amplifies the voices of community members.
Queer History Community Walking Tours as Societal Project
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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