Understanding Immigrant Voices: University and Community Collabortion in Translation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

To collaborate on a new exhibition gallery, the Madison County (IL) Historical Society worked with students and faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to develop a grant-funded digital StoryMap on immigration in Madison County. Read More

Best and Worst Practices in Descendant Engagement

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
  • Museums
  • Oral History
  • Place
ABSTRACT

Descendant Engagement has become a buzzword throughout the museum field. There are established best practices, such as the 2018 “Engaging descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museum Sites rubric, published by The James Madison Montpelier Foundation, which can be a guiding force, however, it is also important to know what NOT to do. Read More

Throwing Bricks and Building Bridges: Creating Solidarity Between University-based Scholarship and Secondary Educators for LGBTQ+ History

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Social Justice
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Using our experience coordinating NEH-funded Teaching Institutes on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States, we propose a roundtable or panel to promote the benefits of partnerships and solidarity between public historians and educators at secondary and post-secondary institutions who value inclusive educational approaches and want to counter the harmful impact that current restrictive legislation and intimidation-based campaigns have on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ topics in curriculum. Read More

Learning through the Act of Creation: Students, small case exhibits, and the power of historical thinking

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel (90 minutes) or Individual (30 minutes)

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Advocacy
  • Memory
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

One of the challenges facing public historians is communicating the importance of history and historical thinking to the general public. Read More

Best Practices for Creating Sustainable Public History Class Projects

PROPOSAL TYPE

Working Group

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

Many public history educators promote experiential learning in their classes by having students participate in a public-facing class project.   Read More

Collaboratively Building Digital Collections

PROPOSAL TYPE

Individual

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Digital collections are not new. However, archives are rethinking the creation of digital collections—including subjects, workflows, and workforce—after disruptions to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic affected engagement with physical materials and increased interest in the history of minority groups in local communities following the Black Lives Matter movement. 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

American Girl Dolls and the Public Humanities

PROPOSAL TYPE

Roundtable

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  •  Material Culture
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in American Girl Dolls as a cultural phenomenon. How do these dolls engage with and introduce people to public history? Read More

The First Five Years: Finding Your Way After Graduation

PROPOSAL TYPE

Structured Conversation

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

While career resources for both new graduates and established professionals are plentiful, we have experienced a lack of resources for those in between. Read More

Archival Inspiration: Using Primary Sources in the Creative Arts

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional Panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Archives
  • Public Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
ABSTRACT

Archival materials are often values primarily for their evidential value – proof that some action happened and was recorded in the annals of history. Read More