Truth Before Reconciliation: Documenting Efforts to Preserve Black Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

We will present our American University Public History Masters Practicum project in which we created a digital space recognizing the grassroots efforts to preserve historically black cemeteries in the Washington, D.C., Read More

Re-envisioning 250 Years

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Material Culture
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This structured conversation is meant to explore ideas together for exhibitions related to the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Read More

Who makes Utah’s past?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Place
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This panel considers issues of inclusion and representation when considering the history of the state of Utah. The session asks who should be the custodians of Utah’s past, and who should they include in its history. Read More

A History of Special Collections – Archiving the Archives

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

For the curators, archivists, and librarians working in Special Collections Divisions across the state and country, maintaining a historical record through the collection of manuscripts, multimedia, and printed forms is not only important but necessary. Read More

Surf’s Up!: Using the CESU to Create a New Multiple Property Document for Sites Associated with the History of Surfing

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Preservation
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This roundtable will discuss an innovative multi-year CESU funded collaboration between the National Park Service Preservation Partners Program, the UNLV Public History Program and Sea of Clouds a non-profit preservation organization focused on coastal landscape and surfing history preservation and interpretation. Read More

Public History Work is Women’s Work

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel or Roundtable

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

In this session we would like to have either a series of presentations or a structured conversation around how the history of public history is women’s history. Read More

Is a Transformative Public History Program Possible?

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This proposal is about our efforts to establish a transformative public history program at an HBCU, a program which not only diversifies the field but also revolutionizes the pedagogical approach of public history programs and raises the historical consciousness of the nation. Read More

“The Future of the Society is Hidden:” Whiteness, Commemoration, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers

PROPOSAL TYPE

Orphan Paper in need of a wider group

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Government Historians
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Place
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

This paper will address to founding of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) using their recently-opened museum archives. Read More

Reclaiming Rejected People

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

As historians work towards a more complete narrative of the past we are seeing greater efforts to center and uplift populations society once rejected. Read More

Soot in the Mortar: Interpreting the Origins of the Climate Crisis at Historic Sites

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Labor and Economy
  • Social Justice
ABSTRACT

Climate change mitigation and advocacy are growing topics in museums, but it is rare for sites with historical connections to industry or fossil fuel to interpret the origins of the crisis. Read More