Making the Inaccessible Accessible

Jamie Melissa Wilms, Director of Education, Molly Brown House Museum

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
Abstract

The Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, CO is currently striving to make it’s 120+ year old home accessible to all.  Read More

Sanctuary Communities: Answering to a Higher Law

Anne Salsich, Associate Archivist, Oberlin College Archives

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Inclusion
Abstract

In 2017, local and state entities have declared themselves sanctuary communities for immigrants that are targets of the Trump administration’s inherently divisive policy to remove or bar non-citizens from the U.S. Read More

History, Universities, and Community Relations

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  •  Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Civic Engagement
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
Abstract

Universities intersect with multiple communities both within and outside of the physical space they occupy.  Students do not leave their concerns outside the institutional gates.  Read More

Gender in Public History: Using Public History to tell Untold or Forgotten Stories

Sara Sanders, Student Member

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Inclusion
  • Memory
  • Theory
Abstract

In 1956 20,000 women of all races gathered in Pretoria to demand that Pass Laws not be extended to women. Read More

Public History for Undergraduates: Local history, preservation, and hands-on learning

Donna Donald, Assistant Professor, Liberty University

Proposal Type
  • Panel
Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Preservation
  • Teaching
Abstract

To share successes and failures in the process of launching our first public history offerings, a few introductory classes for undergraduates. Read More