How History Podcasts “Hold the Line”

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Reflections on the Field
  • History podcasting
ABSTRACT

Podcasting is a relatively new field. It doesn’t have industry standards in the way that more traditional academic history does. Read More

Ignoring the Line: The View from Red States

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

Projects that challenge dominant narratives, present multiple perspectives on difficult topics, and tell the truth don’t necessarily require us to “hold the line. Read More

Holding the Line—or Not—at US Public Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation or Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

How have museums that receive public funding held the line—or not—against vocal critics who have demanded significant changes to exhibitions at those museums? Read More

On The Same Team: State Historical Societies and Local Museums

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

This roundtable would, ideally, be a mix of representatives from state historical societies and local history museums discussing how they have collaborated to improve public history in their area. Read More

Public History Showcase

PROPOSAL TYPE

Lightning Round

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Participants
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Consulting
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Most categories apply
ABSTRACT

This rapid lightning round offers a chance for public history practitioners and scholars to showcase a wide range of innovative projects that are shaping and redefining our field. Read More

Interpreter Professionalization: Public History’s Disenfranchised Front Line

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Labor and Organizing
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

When the public visits museums and historic sites, their primary conduit is often an interpreter. Read More

Collaborating in Crisis: Applied and Academic Public Historians in Conversation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

The current U.S. presidential administration is determined to usher in a “revolution” in historical thinking and presentation. Read More

What is Reenactment?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

This proposal seeks to help answer the question ‘what is reenactment?’ It does this by investigating past meanings of the word. Read More

Anniversary as Eulogy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

Anniversaries are often an opportunity to celebrate key figures and moments in history and to reflect on their significance to our present. Read More

For the Next 50 years: Fostering the Next Generation of Voices in American History and Decorative Arts

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As the United States reflects on its 250th, small and local museums dedicated to American Decorative Arts and history face a pivotal moment: how to sustain their collections, engage new audiences, and cultivate the next generation of professionals. Read More