Contested Heritage in the Era of Trumpism 2.0

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

We invite scholars, practitioners, and community members to join a session exploring the politics of memory and public history amid escalating culture wars, censorship, and reactionary policymaking. Read More

A Revolution in History Publishing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

As self-publishing becomes easier and more widely accepted, more and more small museums, historical societies and individual historians are moving away from publishing their local histories through traditional presses and are, instead, DIYing their books or working with small presses or non-academic publishers. Read More

Emerging Methods & Methodologies in Public History Research

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Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

Public historians are on the cutting edge of research methods. This roundtable examines emerging methodologies in research, interpretation, and narrative construction. Read More

If Everyone’s A Historian

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Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Theory in Practice
ABSTRACT

A conversation (either a roundtable or maybe a working group or possible a weirder format in which we look examples together and discuss them?) Read More

From Regulation to Relevance: Historic Preservation in a Changing Public Sphere

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Preservation
  • Reflections on the Field
ABSTRACT

With the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, the field of historic preservation was codified and formalized. Read More

One Family at a Time: The Revolutionary Power of Genealogy

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

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

Genealogical methods enhance traditional historical research by refocusing our attention to microhistory. Uncovering the secrets of a family’s past is not only personal but is essential to understanding greater historical trends in intimate and complex ways.    Read More

Don’t Give Up the Ship! Preparing for Emergencies – Before They Happen

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Experiential

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

In the revolutionary times we find ourselves facing, museums and cultural institutions must prepare in advance for the inevitable emergency that will impact our staff and guests. Read More

Collaboration and the Work of Revolution: University and Community Partnerships in the Age of Executive Order 14253

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Social Justice
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

My partner, John Marks, curator at Historic Geneva, and I will discuss lessons learned from an ongoing collaboration in which my Critical Museum Studies undergraduate class creates an exhibit for Historic Geneva, a small history museum. Read More

Museum Labor in 2026: Revolutionizing the Way We Work

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Leadership
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Labor
ABSTRACT

Building on conversations started at the AASLH 2025 Conference in Cincinnati, the proposed working group will utilize the data from AASLH’s National Survey of Public History Practitioners from the perspective of museum labor. Read More

Solidarity in Our Storytelling: Lessons in Collaborative Historiography

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

In this session, we will consider how we, as public history makers, and the field as a whole, have told stories and written history either with subjects as co-writers/participants or in highly collaborative modes that defy traditional and/or solo author/researcher approaches. Read More