The Invisible Middle: History Professors Engaging in Public History on Campuses

Anna Kaplan, Doctoral Candidate, American University

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Panel

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  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Place
  • Teaching
  • Other: Universities/Colleges
Abstract

Investigating the role college history professor have or have not played in historical interpretations on higher education campuses beyond and including confederate statues. Read More

The Middle of the Intersection: Oral History, Public History, and Service-Learning

Michella Marino, Assistant Professor of History, Hastings College

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Oral History
  • Teaching
Abstract

My Intro to Oral History class provides an intersection for academic, public, and oral history through Service-Learning projects. Read More

The FDR Memorial as 1990s Culture War

Keith Eberly, Assistant Professor of Education and History, Muskingum University

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Memory
  • Other: Monuments & Memorials
Abstract

Between 1974 and 1997, New Deal liberals designed, promoted, and ultimately built a memorial to FDR on the National Mall. Read More

Beyond Data – Digital Methods as a Way to Present History

Michelle Davison, PhD Student, University of South Florida

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Digital
  • Science and Tech
Abstract

The affordances of digital methods in presenting history and engaging with the public. Read More

The Politics of the Middle

Tim Rives, Deputy Director, Eisenhower Presidential Library

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Memory
Abstract

The panel will discuss the “politics of the middle.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower is a representative figure. Read More

Interpreting the Layers of Indian Removal

Savannah Grandey, Director of Interpretation, Historic Westville

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Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

“Indian Removal” as articulated by Andrew Jackson and comrades was a monumental idea and federal policy that irrevocably shaped the southeastern United States. Read More

Community Oral Histories

Elizabeth Gritter, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Local and Oral History, Indiana University Southeast

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

I am seeking presenters involved in community ( defined broadly) oral history projects in order to present the results of t heir work. Read More

Repeat Photography: Understanding our Place through Sequential Observation

Craig S. Campbell, Dr, Youngstown State University

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Pecha Kucha

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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

About 1950, George R. Stewart, Professor of English at Berkeley, photographed many different types of landscapes along Highway 40. Read More

From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou

Sade Turnipseed, Executive Director / History Professor, Khafre, Inc / MVSU

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Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

By studying the cotton plantation system of the Old South and operations owned by Joseph and Jefferson Davis, juxtaposed t o the self-determined agency of Benjamin Montgomery, and how Davis Bend became what was considered an “imagined community” in the historical township of Mound Bayou. Read More

George Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: Historic Preservation and the Industrial Midwest

Rebekah Beaulieu, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
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  • Material Culture
  • Preservation
  • Place
Abstract

The Midwest became the epicenter of the American industrial sec tor atthe end of the 19th century. Self-made entrepreneurs, such as Frederick Pabst of Milwaukee’s Pabst Brewing Company, erected lavish homes to showcase their societal rise and elite status, which continue to serve as beacons of industrial-era prosperity. Read More