Working Group on Sharing Best Practices and Challenges of Institutional Slavery Reckoning Projects
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Working Group
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- Seeking Additional Participants
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Archives
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, many museums, universities, churches, and cities have launched projects to explore and reckon with their histories of slavery. Read More
Descendants Illuminate the Unfinished Work of Revolution
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Experiential
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- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Memory
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
As descendants of the family of William Whipple, a signer of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and of Prince Whipple, an African he enslaved who co-signed the 1779 Petition for Freedom, we facilitate a juxtaposition of primary and secondary sources and spaces of our ancestors to illuminate both existing challenges and promising practices to strengthen public history. Read More
Revolutionary Displays? Museums, Violence, and the Struggle Against Indifference
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Advocacy
- Memory
- Museums/Exhibits
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
On April 23, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan opened Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Records of the Armenian Genocide, a temporary exhibition drawing on testimonies from diplomats, missionaries, journalists, and relief workers. Read More
Protests: Radium Girls Changing the Work Force
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Expertise
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- Advocacy
- Labor and Organizing
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Women have historically been silenced in their efforts creating equality. A specific group of working class women fell victim to corporate greed and corruption and decided enough was enough. Read More
Contested Heritage in the Era of Trumpism 2.0
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Roundtable
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- 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
Collaboration and the Work of Revolution: University and Community Partnerships in the Age of Executive Order 14253
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Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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- Social Justice
- Reflections on the Field
- Teaching and Training
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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
Revolution in Preservation: Community Voices and BIPOC Heritage Sites
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Oral History
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Las Barracas, a WWII-era barracks turned Latinx farmworker housing in Boulder County, Colorado, highlights the urgent need to preserve BIPOC heritage sites. Read More
The Incomplete History of Feminist Activism: An Exploration of the Battered Women’s Movement in California, 1945-1994
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Oral History
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
Although historians have written about a wide range of United States feminist movements, including the anti-rape and reproductive rights movements, little has been written about the origins and developments of the battered women’s movement. Read More