Learning through the Act of Creation: Students, small case exhibits, and the power of historical thinking
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel (90 minutes) or Individual (30 minutes)
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
- Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT
One of the challenges facing public historians is communicating the importance of history and historical thinking to the general public. Read More
Effective engagement strategies for small history organizations
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Museums/Exhibits
- Public Engagement
RELATED TOPICS
Small history organizations (historical societies, museums, and more) often face challenges with funding and with staff time. Here, our panel will delve into how to efficiently and creatively manage resources to ensure you’re engaging with your audiences to your full capacity. Read More
Historical Urgency: Changing the Narratives About Haiti from DisEmpowering to Empowering
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Memory
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Haiti, created out of an enslaved African Rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue in 1804, evolved as an isolated state, rejected by neighbors fearing the propagation of seditious anti-slavery ideas. Read More
Uncomfortable History and Challenging Collective Memory in Community Archives
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
In 1995, a local history buff in Hamilton County, Indiana discovered and donated a trunk full of records from the local 1920s Ku Klux Klan chapter in a barn. Read More
Columbia Canopy Project: Addressing Structural Racism through History & Environmental Justice
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Public Engagement
- Reflections on the Field
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
In Summer 2022, Historic Columbia (Columbia, SC) joined nature non-profit Columbia Green (Columbia, SC) on the Columbia Canopy Project. Read More
Happy Birthday, William & Mary: Interrogating Artifacts as Tools of Remembering and Forgetting Inside and Outside the Classroom
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Memory
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Welcome to William & Mary’s 331st Birthday Party! Inspired by a 1993 t-shirt that celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the university’s charter by providing a selective version of the university’s history, our project reconsiders the events deemed noteworthy. Read More
Access to Historical Documents
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Consulting
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
This proposal seeks to identify the increased decline in access to record holdings and then explore ways that researchers can halt and reverse this decline. Read More
Finding Virginia’s Freetowns
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Memory
- Place
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
Plantation landscapes have been scrutinized by public historians, who have curated the lives of white slave-owners and enslaved Black laborers who called these landscapes home. Read More
The Rosetta Circle
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Public Engagement
- Music and Audio Documentary
ABSTRACT
The ROSETTA CIRCLE is a singing collective of care celebrating our unsung foremothers of jazz and blues as archived by Rosetta Records. Read More
Intersection of Documentation and Storytelling
PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop/Conversation/Round-Robin
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Oral History
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
We propose to conduct a 2hr working session with a hands-on, round robin component followed by open discussion focused on Documentation and Storytelling. Read More