National Council on Public History

1pm Capitol II @DDMeringolo kicks off Radical Roots:Civic Engagemnt, Pub Hist & Social Justice Activism mini-symposium #RadRoots #NCPH2017

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

Join @lwalterscooper Amy Lonetree, Laura Schiavo & me for #Museums & the Progressive Impulse 3pm Capitol II #RadRoots #NCPH2017

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

#NCPH2017 the hashtag for 1-5 pm "Radical Roots: Civic Engagement, Public History, and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" is#RadRoots

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

Google doc for #Museums & Progressive Impulse session attendees to record notes, ideas & Qs:https://t.co/U8X6508y2t #RadRoots #ncph2017 https://t.co/uk68XRBF4C

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

Go to #NCPH2017 #radroots mini symposium "Sharing and Disrupting Authority in Oral and Public History", Friday, 1:30-2:45 pm, Capitol III

— Oral History Association (@oralhistory) April 21, 2017

Excited for mini-symposium Radical Roots: Civic Engagement, Public History, and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism#RadRoots #ncph2017

— Jennifer Coggins (@jlcogg) April 21, 2017

Civic engagement, public history, and social justice #radroots #ncph2017–here we go!

— Adam T Foreman (@MuseumGuyATF) April 21, 2017

Excited for start of #RadRoots mini-symposium in Capitol II. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Diving into Radical Roots (#RadRoots) at #ncph2017 !!!

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

So excited to talk civic engagement & social justice at #RadRoots! #ncph2017!

— Dr. Chelsea Denault (@Chelsea_Denault) April 21, 2017

Excited for #radroots mini-con to get started. #ncph2017.Following along & contrib to collab notes. All sessions: https://t.co/jKHzapKsnu

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

Expanding the genealogy of Public History #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

"Civic engagement" been used to "bolster institutions" rather than individuals' agency #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Ready for #RadRoots at #ncph2017! We're here to shift the sense of what our field is & what it can be by exploring its varied origins

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#radroots Critical re-analysis of public history's roots, to include people committed to transformation & change. #ncph2017

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

is "civic engagement" just a buzzword for institutions? #ncph2017 #radroots

— chelsea farrell (@farrell_chelsea) April 21, 2017

4 research groups into connections between PH and activism: 1. Museums 2. Oral history 3. Preservation 4. Education #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

20 researchers wking on collaborative, disparate #RadRoots research #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Radical Roots:Civic Engagement, PH, & a Tradition of Social Justice #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Ashley B. Claybrooks (@NicNat_artifakz) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo: research coalition of 20 scholars, def of "radical" is contextual, & each scholar defines differently. #radroots #ncph2017

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

@DDMeringolo: is it okay if #RadRoots of #publichistory include temporary, ephemeral projects? Search for continuity masks links. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Historical inquiry and Civic engagement = radical political activism #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

@DDMeringolo and #RadRoots collaborators challenge institutional cooptation of discourse of #civicengagement. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

The radical roots of public history have been invisible in mainstream history narratives #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Ashley B. Claybrooks (@NicNat_artifakz) April 21, 2017

Fabulous session idea framing social justice activism #ncph2017 #RadRoots the archaeologist hopes materiality becomes part of the discussion

— Paul Mullins (@mullins_paul) April 21, 2017

Looking for a new historiography that includes gathering, recording, preservation, and interpretation for social change #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Woo hoo! Radical Roots: Civic Engagement, Public History, and a Tradition of Social Justice #radroots #ncph2017 is ON.

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots session has set up a collaborative note-taking space https://t.co/5qtZmcx0hF #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Collaborative note-taking in this session via Google Docs! #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Yes! A group of public historians is talking together about reframing the institutional copout term "civic engagement" #radroots #ncph2017

— Kimber Heinz (@kimberjeanz) April 21, 2017

Thinking beyond the (accurate) history of museums as hegemony. Looking for decenterings and expansions in museology's history #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Laura Schiavo asks how #RadRoots inquiry can go beyond now-accepted critique of #museums as hegemonic white spaces. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Radical roots of public history mini-symposium getting off to an incredible start! #RadRoots pic.twitter.com/pH7kMw7m0S

— Dr. Maria E. Cotera, PhD (@MECotera) April 21, 2017

The #radroots sessions are led by 20 folks who started as a working group in '14 & convos continue to infuse their research. #ncph2017.

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

#Folklife, camps, #oralhistory all potentially part of #RadRoots of #publichistory education. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

"New" historic precedents for pubhist education: 1930s, campers taught to do oral history and collect folklore #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

@abbygateau plugs #RadRoots symposium session on "how ppl have done #publichistory without public historians." #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Amy Starcheski: #oralhistory institutionalized enough now that it's a bit hegemonic itself. How to shift that? #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Thought from my neighbor: what would it be like to identify conservative roots of public history? What would that illuminate? #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

(We split up into 2 groups and I'm in the PH education group) #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

"College admin increasingly see PH as a practical strategy for community engagement" (and PR??) #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Beth Belanger leads off #RadRoots session 1 on #publichistory education. Here's her History@Work post on this. #ncph2017 https://t.co/oCfVMeDpkj

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 just joining #radroots excited to learn about public history education and the roots of civic engagement

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Gonna hear 5min reports from panelists on their research #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Public History education: Beth Belanger @HWSColleges on the History @ Work blog https://t.co/Vw3CJabcUf #radroots #ncph2017 #upstate4eva

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Amy Starecheski: oral history was in part about making historians obsolete, that ppl could make & interp their own hist #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Beth Belanger: is this higher education’s (new) “civic turn?” What are the #radroots of service learning, collaboration? #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

"Applied folklore" documenting folklore for students; Camp Woodland taught "tangible and intangible" local history. #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Rachel Donaldson: Broadening our understanding of the roots of #publichistory (at camp!) https://t.co/uVSIr0o3kD #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Rachel Donaldson exploring use of #oralhistory projects at interracial mid 20th c kids' camp in Adirondacks #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

AS: OH used the terrain of acad history to legitimaize itself as a field, and this silences the use of OH for soc just #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Camp suffered in Cold War era, normalized racial integration for campers. #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Donaldson: Look at venues, methodologies, theories of non-historical fields for some of #RadRoots of #publichistory. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

AS: most innovative stories & theories come from OHs working in social justice struggle before acad latched on #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Here's the History@Work post, btw: https://t.co/00WZRg1idM #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Donaldson looking for "nascent #publichistory" outside the academy, not in fabled jobs crisis of 1970s. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

What does OH look like as a tool for disrupting authority and established narratives #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

We're here at #RadRoots mini-symposium talking about the intersection of civic engagement & public history education at Day 2 of #ncph2017!

— Loyola History Dept (@loyolahistdept) April 21, 2017

Moses Massenburg looking at #RadRoots of #blackhistory outside traditional historical spaces. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Now looking at Helen Matthews Lewis and the origins of Appalachian Studies #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Moses Massenburg/MSU: Can we add a feminist lens on the development of #BlackHistoryMonth? #radroots #npch2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Inspired…. @ncph2017 #radroots

— Chuck Yarborough (@CYarb1) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots Moses massenburg on the public history roots of black history month and the influence of black women as publichistorians

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Lewis engaged students in research & teaching–had them interview mine workers, & corps did not approve & pushed back #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Woodson' voice being played (video from the home where he passed away and which is a HHM). Powerful. #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Yet another instance of NSF grants funding history research: Helen Matthews Lewis #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Lewis was shut down bc coal corps put pressure on the university to shut her down #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Black history moved through home schools and women's voluntary associations #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Mary M. Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Angela Davis — as #publichistory foremothers. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Lewis looked at the social & Econ impacts of coal, & called the coal industry colonialist #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Massenburg: invoking CarterGWoodson as ancestor. Key aspect of #RadRoots: search for ancestries resonant w our own motivations. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

"is it fatalism? Or the Coal Industry?" Helen on Appalachian mindset #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

This is also fodder for the #campushistories crowd #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@willcooperstown: folklore and the roots of #publichistory training in Cooperstown https://t.co/Uo3zxslrCa #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Camp Woodland also focused on the story of Sojourner Truth #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Agreed – "We no longer need to fight for oral history's legitimacy; we need to fight for its social justice politic." #radroots #ncph2017

— Kimber Heinz (@kimberjeanz) April 21, 2017

so . much . upstate . #upstate4eva #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Lewis critiqued the way NSF money implied that all points of view were equal–coal industry alongside miners & residents #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Folklore as proto-social history #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

@willcooperstown amplifying links between #folklore + emergent #publichistory via #materialculture + democratic ideals #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Check out writings from Helen Matthews Lewis in the book HML: living social justice in Appalachia from u of ky press #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

Lewis et al became interested in how women organized and led, eventually became the Highlander Econ Studies program #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Cooperstown PH begun as history/museum studies; emphasis on local history #ncph2017 #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

This is your reminder that the HIghlander Folk School needs to be in your PH curriculum! #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

quit "pussyfooting" around and commit to social justice, paraphrased from Judi Jennings on Helen Matthews Lewis #ncph2017 #radroots

— chelsea farrell (@farrell_chelsea) April 21, 2017

HML's work shows that content and methods can be focused on advancing social justice. #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

@willcooperstown Cooperstown Grad Program started 1954, built on 1930s era ideas abt #history as inclusive, cmmty-based #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 making history more inclusive #radroots
I completely agree in every way
More voice more stories

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

What does HML's work mean as universities become more corporate? Where does the funding for radical work come from? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo on the American Civilization Institute (1965-9) engaging students in history: https://t.co/zWk643Rk2a #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Another history@work bit for y'all: https://t.co/QhlhRcmevz
(This whole panel wrote posts about their research) #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots #ncph2017 @DDMeringolo on American Civilization Institute of Morristown NJ an experiment in public history ed w/ h.s. students

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 guys there are still seats in #radroots civic engagement and public history education
all the interdisciplinary nerds are here

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Next up! #radroots #ncph2017 pic.twitter.com/R42cjCOVKu

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Wondering abt #RadRoots framing "#publichistory education" as popular edn. Not training pub historians per se, but just *doing* PH #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

A truly radical oral history needs to reach beyond historians in an assertively interdisciplinary discussion #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Paul Mullins (@mullins_paul) April 21, 2017

Feedback loop of history: archives are incomplete, historians use incomplete archives. Hides women Chicano activists #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

"Without complete archives, we get incomplete history" on invisibility of chicana & latinas in civil rights histories #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

Created an online space to preserve oral histories & documents so historians can break out of the feedback loop #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

"Empathy, awareness of self, and mindfulness" key for public historians when doing emotional labor #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

How do public historians (fail to) educate students about the feelings that come with doing (radical) public history. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Digital archive to escape institutional order of archives to record lives of ppl outside of institutions #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Beth Belanger bringing #RadRoots session back to #publichistory training per se. Centering reflection, empathy in process. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

If history is written from the archives & archives use histories as justification for what to collect, lots are excluded #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Beth Belanger working on self-reflection in the undergraduate classroom, looking to community arts pedagogies. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Connects to the Q of access, which is critical to women & activists of color who don't want their collections locked up #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots importance of empathy in public history and collaboration #sotrue

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

"Access is the single most important q for where colllections go" "most women interviewed still using" their stuff #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

Digital archive also lets activists continue to use their materials even as they are available to scholars/public #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Community art pedagogy as important tool to build these affective skills in public historians #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Things we don't hear at other history conferences: "collaboration," "empathy," "reciprocity," "bonds of trust." #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Archives use the idea of permanence to delegitimize temporary archives & exchanges outside of the institution #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Lack of sustainable funding leads to ephemeral archives. Still legitimate but forced into a different way of thinking. #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots So much here that goes far beyond #history per se. Liberal edn, citizenship, character, etc. Are there boundaries? #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

So many essential questions! #ncph2017 #RadRoots pic.twitter.com/c3C8Rm0rXs

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

"Radical public history unleashed a torrent of emotions" in the classroom, argues Belanger. What is instructor's role? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Can the ephemeral archive better respect the ephemeral nature of the material in it; conversation, memory etc #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Q: My students thought honesty was more important than accuracy up until November; what now? #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Eventual goal of Chincana archive is a women of color archive #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

For ideas, #RadRoots #NCPH2017 panelist looks to community artists & how they've documented their practices https://t.co/tmCTnnMTPz

— Clarissa Ceglio, PhD (@cjceglio) April 21, 2017

Belanger rethinking assessment for public history–honesty versus accuracy; multiple truths. #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

A: Folklore as an important intervention in that question; maybe this is where Hist&Folklore split? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Online environment of digital archive allows for collaboration across geography, w/guidelines for contributors #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo: "we want people to speak their truth but there are also things that happened that can not be denied." #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Q for later: who pays for the server space to host these sites? Digital space has institutions too. #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Student material collected while working on archive is presented at the university & in community meetings #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

45 blocked Woodson Association from consulting on Black History Month and "that's how Douglass became alive again" #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Cotera: we know not all in these communities have digital access; public programs also essential #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

Observation from the floor: student working more on history across communities rather than community history #radroots #ncph2017 #relevant

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots #Aaahl was not consulting the WH on black history month
"that's how Frederick Douglass became alive again"

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

(Transnational turn in public history?) #sidenote #ncph2017 #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

.@sherah1918 points to @bereacollege's place in our #radroots / new histories of #publichistory, pre-20th century! #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Copyright means the repository is password-protected, so scholars have to contact women to use their images/words #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Cotera's students got so into the archive that they stayed up until 2-3AM scanning rather than go out in Austin #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots @sherah1918 asks abt #BereaCollege as #RadRoots. @willcooperstown: part of lineage of sharing stories of "the folk" #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

We need an institutional presence, but we need to acknowledge what we lose when exist only in institutions #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

And then went and got tattoos from the historic activist newsletters! #ncph2017 #radroots https://t.co/TSHq3gtNCn

— kristen baldwin deathridge (@k10death) April 21, 2017

Donaldson: #RadRoots research attempting to "bring the Old Left back" into story of #publichistory. #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Cotera: ''What we are is what we decide we are." #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

loving this #radroots convo less than week after I reviewed Isserman's book on Old => New left for colloq #ncph2017

— Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD (@TheOtherRBG) April 21, 2017

We have a Freedom Rider in the audience; Dad was a communist party organizer #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

"Pete Seeger and kids' songs, that's how the Old Left got to us, right?" #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Aud: NCPH was originally concerned with jobs & not concerned enough with radical work #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Black history as a requirement for membership in BLack Panther Party (heyyyo @HollyEvanMarie!) #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

The big Q: what do #radroots mean for public historians working today in academic spaces? #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Aud: ppl believed that oral hist was the magic bullet to tell teh truth of the past; survivor bias in these stories #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Had to create an archive to tell the story of the radical activists of the past #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo: we measure benefits of "civic engagement" to our classrooms/unis but not to the communities we work with. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Aud: these collections need to be brought together and interrogated #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Love the idea of "reframing archives as collective experiences of memory" via Maria Cotera at #radroots #ncph2017

— Kimber Heinz (@kimberjeanz) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo : if my institution wants to use PH to sustain itself, maybe program should be ephemeral? #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Aud: Queer hist proj in SWVA, straightwhiteciskids interviewing sex workers,drag queens etc, wants to change pwr dynamic #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: wants to train young trans folks to interview older trans folks, get it out of the classroom #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Belanger: constructing a #RadRoots genealogy has helped legitimate her #publichistory work in academy. Cart before horse? #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

there is truly "radical" community work done in universities with stale civil engagement ideologies #RadRoots

— Paul Mullins (@mullins_paul) April 21, 2017

Aud: What do you do with the project when it's done? (Queer archive in SWVA person) #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Cotera responds: students are too privileged, does interviews herself to spare the women from that experience #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

need to "negate liberal racism," which isn't an oxymoron #radroots #ncph2017

— Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD (@TheOtherRBG) April 21, 2017

Cotera res: Students see themselves in the work women did as youths, ask themselves what they are doing? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Belanger turned to community-based arts pedagogies and intercultural dialogues when oral history models didn't work. #ncph2017 #radroots

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Angela Davis, educating in towns near prisons, would ask how many Black folks lived there; "1 or 2," incarcerated invisible #radroots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

What about doing PH work w/o tenure that could be "too radical" for your institution? How do we make it work? #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Dr. Chelsea Denault (@Chelsea_Denault) April 21, 2017

Cotera: asks students to be critical listeners, learn to be part of something not leading it #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

"If PH students are looking for a job; how can privileged folks ethically push them toward activism?" #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

.@dvhunter: we teach in different contexts. how do we navigate class privilege in public history classrooms? #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

#LRT I don't think it's about pushing students towards activism it's about pushing our students to have a point of view. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo says it better than my tweet: we need to push students to keep the field alive. #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

As: "They'll be more marketable with cultural competency" and "if we don't broaden who history is done by/for, we're doomed" #RadRoots

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Massenburg: looking at black activist uses of history can challenge white liberal sense of what the past is & means. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots @DDMeringolo If we don't open up methods beyond collections and to engage other people we will die

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

How do we share authority beyond the moment of the interview? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

If we think of social justice as a goal of our whole practice, not incidental to it, how does that make change? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

And this is something new to so many students and instructors. This goes back to listening to your audience #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Aud: how do we decolonize the methodology of oral history? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

If you don't understand privilege, work for inclusion and underrepresented, you won't get a job. #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Andrea Burns (@HistoryAndrea) April 21, 2017

I really really want this to be true for #museums #archives #publichistory sites. #radroots #ncph2017 https://t.co/dL3R9wqdpa

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

#radroots #ncph2017 is it time to decolonize oral history and how do we do this?? Yes and let's try

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

PH makes academy more permeable; doesn't break them down #radroots #ncph2017

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

Discussing the Importance of decolonizing oral history practices (I've found my people) #radroots

— Pumpkin Spice Depression (Taylor's Version) (@HollyEvanMarie) April 21, 2017

Yes – question then becomes, "where is history per se?" Is it foundational to making good ppl? #RadRoots #ncph2017

— cathystanton (@cathystanton) April 21, 2017

Aud: Suggests having students teach OH to LGBTQ youth, then interview them after they speak to adults #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud cont'd: Ask what we can do for communities (newsletter?) that isn't recording their stories #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Need to deal with vulnerability of interviewer, self-protection creates inequality #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Historians as gatekeepers on what qualifies as evidence; do OHs do the same for ways of knowing #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Terrific first session at #radroots on public history education, taking a break before talking #museums history! #ncph2017 pic.twitter.com/Z4zHtm8QoL

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

"best practices" for oral history are colonizing oral traditions and folklore #radroots #ncph2017

— Pumpkin Spice Depression (Taylor's Version) (@HollyEvanMarie) April 21, 2017

Aud:Assump that students of color will interview PoCs. Describes white narrator telling her racist jokes. vulnerability? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Listens to racism to get at stories of black wmn who raised narrator's grandfather. Not always clear #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots ready to watch @lwalterscooper on early museums and the progressive impulse

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Headed to #s51 #ncph2017 but will be back to look at the #radroots collaborative notes!

— Ted Maust (@theodeomutts) April 21, 2017

.@lwalterscooper North Carolina Negro State Fair work is a way to extend her understanding of function of museum #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#radroots is back on! Come back from coffee land and join in #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Research asks "How do black people tell the world what it means to be black, in a black space, in black terms?"#RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Shoutout to the GOAT @lwalterscooper as she presents her work on black public history traditions #radroots #ncph2017 pic.twitter.com/9PJRAMX6sk

— 🧝🏿‍♀️Amber N Mitchell🧜🏾‍♀️ (@anichellemitch) April 21, 2017

.@lwalterscooper focus is on visual display of the black narrative of progress, as defined by Fath Davis Ruffins #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@k10death is kicking us off for the grassroots part of #radroots #ncph2017, describing the reuse of a Zen Buddhist temple in San Fran

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@lwalterscooper kicks off #museums #radroots looking @ NC Negro State Fair 1879-98, "a public event w/a political purpose.” #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

@k10death also talking the preservation process for a Rosenwald school community in Wilkesboro NC #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Trying to untangle accommodation happening while people are working in black spaces on black progress @lwalterscooper #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@drpublichistory Comparing gay liberation & Amer Ind Movement for uses of history for social change #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

How best to articulate/understand accommodation as a radical posture in the late 19th century? @lwalterscooper #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@BrittaniOrona looking at how memory & place making inform environmental justice #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

.@cjceglio looking at 1932-1942 to examine broader circumstance in which some museum folks embraced progressive vision #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@Bullock_Ang looking at intersections of black identity, archives, and visual art #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Clarissa Ceglio: how does the museum work "as social instrument" in first decades of 20-c, in context of WPA, adult ed? #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Joining the #radroots discussion on grassroots public history #ncph2017

— Julie Peterson (@juliegpeterson) April 21, 2017

Museum workers grappling w/ social changes and civic engagement: Depression, Social Welfare, Adult Education. @cjceglio #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@lucyelephant: white guy working on Af Am hist, can the colonizer be part of the decolonization process? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

@LucyElephant: "Can colonizers truly be a part of social justice and decolonization?" #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

.@cjceglio #RadRoots Project has potential to reconnect contemporary field with historic textbooks on progressive museum practice #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Combing back through museum field means she has to reclaim history from other museums; often less creative #RadRoots #ncph2017 @cjceglio

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots is trending on Twitter! #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

This question comes from the work of @lwalterscooper #RadRoots #ncph2017 https://t.co/xKYYcHkdA2

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Laura Schiavo looking at deeper history of "identity museums" in the 1930s #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots is there a risk of appropriation when claiming a project from the past as public history when the creators wouldn't? #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

Do we risk appropriating history by calling ppl public historians fi they don't call themselves that? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Schiavo began reading older history of Jewish Museum of New York, which had roots as a book and manuscript collection #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Grassroots Public History #ncph2017 session #RadRoots civic engagement &tradition of Social Justice Activism ~ with #simultaneousASL ! pic.twitter.com/RJjVu2esR1

— Nan Kim (@nan_kim) April 21, 2017

Aud: Don't patrol the boundaries of the discipline; that's for another generation #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Cyrus Adler hired Paul Romanoff as a curator 1931 at Jewish Seminary. Adler had worked at Smithsonian, not supportive. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots or is the question of appropriation too much boundary policing? #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

Aud cont: Boundary patrolling also bars the interdisciplinary work that happens from folklorists etc. #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud cont: Ruskin College History Workshops as a critical example #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Schiavo: What was Romanoff mission at Jewish Seminary? Exhibit Jewish culture in Jewish space, connect with community. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#radroots blindspot: acads Appropriating past of marginalized as public history forebears? Not owning non-flattering roots of the field?

— Dan Ott (@1dan_ott) April 21, 2017

Aud cont: Goal of New Social History was to empower ppl to tell their own history, push back against master narrative #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Schiavo: Romanoff reports to bosses about impact of the museum at Seminary. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Schiavo: Does it make more sense to write museum history as museum friction? #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Aud cont: Tells us Frisch would want us to know that there's power in discourse to explored as well #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Schiavo: Is there a history of "the museum?" Is there a history of "the American Museums?" #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Im hearing such amazing stories of museums and places of public history. #radroots #ncph2017

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

Lonetree tracks a movement toward indigenous people representing themselves in museum spaces. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Lonetree: decolonization by privileging Native voice, challenging stereotypes, and allowing for self-representation #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

Lonetree: decolonizing museum practice must be based in truth telling about colonialism and grief #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

If communities don't value the physical space the way hist pres does, how can we acknowledge that & help them #radroots #ncph217

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Lonetree: currently serving as a museum ethnographer of the https://t.co/dGUy5YRcth #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

@abbygateau: "How do you preserve the built environment when all the important people are renters?" #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Lonetree: Abbe Museum is working toward creating an institute to build a community of practice for decolonizing museums #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

How does putting history in a museum isolate it & cut it off from the community? #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Power mapping: civic studies tool for organizing social change. Also applies to public history https://t.co/cZprAU5HGc #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— teacherinpastlife (@teachernpl) April 21, 2017

Is it a good solution to put up a plaque that says gay ppl used to live here? Plaque means it's over, let's reclaim space #ncph217 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Place/physical space is important not b/c it can be "museum-ified" but b/c it represents communities people fought for #ncph2017 #radroots

— Julie Peterson (@juliegpeterson) April 21, 2017

#radroots #ncph2017 as groups get assimilated, we want to memorialize, put up a plaque that says, "Gay people lived here."

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Grassroots Public History is happening everywhere there is community. @ncph #radroots #ncph2017

— Chuck Yarborough (@CYarb1) April 21, 2017

Gregory Rosenthal: "When you put the plaque up, it means the fight is over." Reclaim spaces for communities. #ncph2017 #radroots

— Jennifer Coggins (@jlcogg) April 21, 2017

Lonetree: How has our understanding of decolonizing museum practice evolved? What challenges remain? #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Denise D. Meringolo (@DDMeringolo) April 21, 2017

#radroots #ncph2017 @BrittaniOrona: Her work is personal w/her own community, the place she wants to save defines her community

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Lonetree cites Alex Nahwegahbow, "On Love, Dialogue, & Decolonization" of curatorial pedagogies https://t.co/QNWnwegpwM #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

@BrittaniOrona public history can be both political and personal. And it should be. #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

@drpublichistory: What does public mean? Critical Q for when you're working w/in your own community #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

@jdavis025 Often we're told not to make the work of history or PH personal, but maybe it should be #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: The work of PH is personal in the Deaf community; many groups but are treated as monolithic #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud cont: Disability complicates the issues of PH #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots We are told we shouldn't take our projects personally, but we put ourselves into them so it is personal. #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots panelists/audience rocking #ncph2017. What are radical origins of PH? How can we use them to pursue justice thru PH work?

— Julie Davis (@HistorianOnFire) April 21, 2017

Aud Q: "How can we evoke empathy if we can't connect with the story ourselves?" #radroots #ncph2017

— Julie Peterson (@juliegpeterson) April 21, 2017

Discussion of the personal/emotional in our work connects with "Archival Bonds" at #SAA2016: https://t.co/zH8D6E8tXU #ncph2017 #radroots

— Jennifer Coggins (@jlcogg) April 21, 2017

#FeinsteinFireside , #poweroutage , #RadRoots , #PopConference , #netgain , #nationalteaday , #Descendants2Event , Exxon

— Japan Art & Design (@artsynihon) April 21, 2017

MLK " Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— teacherinpastlife (@teachernpl) April 21, 2017

Recommended reading: Power and Love by Adam Kahane (generative or degenerative, #leadership ) #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— teacherinpastlife (@teachernpl) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots @UntoldHistories is trying to decolonize public history orgs & empower communities to tell their story. https://t.co/fZabWrN1l8

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

Aud: Professionalism is an ideology constructed around gendered ideas of masculinity #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

The past is an emotional place: for those who lived it; live its consequences; research, interpret, learn it. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Julie Davis (@HistorianOnFire) April 21, 2017

Aud: History as a technology of power for marginalized communities #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

History is a technology of power. #RadRoots #ncph2017

— Julie Davis (@HistorianOnFire) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots the lack of conversation about colonization in the Smithsonian's museum of the American Indian is very striking

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Aud: Community activist wants to know how we connect the idea of grassroots w/local organizing #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Public history term grassroots? Power-to vs. power-over. #ncph2017 #radroots. Wait. Why not "radroots"?

— teacherinpastlife (@teachernpl) April 21, 2017

.@kimberjeanz points out utility of using "grassroots" re: PH to connect w/ communities already organizing on their own #ncph2017 #radroots

— Julie Peterson (@juliegpeterson) April 21, 2017

@rizzzo_pubhist How do we use grassroots as a shorthand for liberal or progressive? Be critical #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Grassroots mvmt is a huge moment in the Deaf community #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Can't use grassroots as a shorthand for progressive considering recent conservative social movements claiming the term #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots #ncph2017 @rizzo_pubhist "grass roots" public history, falsely implies liberalism – right leaning also use history…

— Dan Ott (@1dan_ott) April 21, 2017

And yet, deaf community sees the term as a new and empowering phrase #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Amy: Grassroots history-making may be a better term #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: Maybe the word insurgent #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Audience member suggests "insurgent" as an alternative to "grassroots" #radroots #ncph2017

— Julie Peterson (@juliegpeterson) April 21, 2017

How do we contribute (or not) to decolonization in our practice? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

#ncph2017 #radroots giving an institution a collection of marginalized voices is a loss of control over the objects for marginalized people

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

What about communities who have struggled to get institutional recognition? #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

Aud: What is radical? What is the point of the project? Maybe methodology needs to come after the so what. #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

What is radical & to what end are we working? Is it to put it in a box on a shelf or something more meaningful #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

To decolonize, you have to start with the colonized. Push for access to the supposed public insts to the actual public #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Jane Davis⁷ #BlackLivesMatter (@jdavis025) April 21, 2017

Good discussions at #radroots #ncph2017; a chance to reflect on our practice. What are our agendas in p.h. and how is it personal/political?

— Elena Rippel (@erippel8) April 21, 2017

Is gender a possible lens for #radroots? Struggling with this question and the labor of public history thru whole afternoon. #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

.@DDMeringolo, @drpublichistory: more Qs: power and authority; what happens when institutions become institutions #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

::whispers:: I think these two tweets are intertwined #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Hey #ncph2017! Trending on Twitter right now, #9, is #RadRoots.

— Dr. Anne Lindsay (@ALindsay45) April 21, 2017

We still haven't defined 'radical,' which makes me feel better about tomorrow morning's panel title. #radroots #ncph2017 https://t.co/nnoM3E1REg

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Decolonizing emerged as important framing concept #publichistory #ncph2017 #RadRoots H/T Eric Hung, public musicologist @RiderUniversity

— Nan Kim (@nan_kim) April 21, 2017

Audience question: do you need roots? #radroots #ncph2017

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

Not about the history of radicals, but looking for radical approaches to PH #radroots #ncph2017

— Dr. Abigail R. Gautreau (@abbygateau) April 21, 2017

The bold #RadRoots project, led by the fierce @DDMeringolo, has the potential to shift the ground that public historians build on. #ncph2017

— Julie Davis (@HistorianOnFire) April 21, 2017

#ncph 2017 #radroots Carnival Barker: join us at s56 at 1030 for radhist in less than rad places @monicalmercado @dvhunter @Chelsea_Denault

— Dan Ott (@1dan_ott) April 21, 2017

When we talk about power, justice, empathy, practice, it's the (pink?) elephant in the room for me! #radroots #ncph2017 https://t.co/KzlmhfqFjI

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

But like @HistorianOnFire, don't ask me to be super articulate at 4:45pm on day 2 of #ncph2017 #energizedbutexhausted #radroots

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots advice on how to sneak radical public history into mord traditional institutions is needed. #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

Comment from the floor: There are ways for stealthy radicalism in confining institutions. #radroots #ncph2017

— Sheila A Brennan (@SheilaABrennan) April 21, 2017

In the #radroots debrief #ncph2017. Now I am really sorry I wasn't able to attend any of the sessions.

— Priya Chhaya (@priyastoric) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots need to think through how to layer theory & practice. #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

Finding little stories to combat the #Fieldofsuckiness that history sometimes is #ncph2017 #radroots

— Lacey “Public Historian of Bob’s Burgers” Wilson🍔 (@LaceyWilson4) April 21, 2017

Someone just called public history (historically) a "field of suckiness". Public historians: WE OWN OUR ISSUES (mostly) #ncph2017 #radroots

— Rebecca Ortenberg (@historein) April 21, 2017

#RadRoots huge congrats to @DDMeringolo & her collaborators for an awesome symposium & project. #ncph2017

— Mary Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) April 21, 2017

building that out: possibly "insurgent"+"history-making"? latter term offered by @AmyStarecheski #ncph2017 #RadRoots

— Nan Kim (@nan_kim) April 21, 2017

Hear hear! #radroots #ncph2017 https://t.co/kWN0jsGqre

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 21, 2017

The latest The Knitting Clio Daily! https://t.co/08BHoU4RgQ Thanks to @mpcsmith @IfHillaryHad @museum_life #ncph2017 #radroots

— Dr. Heather Munro Prescott (@hmprescott) April 21, 2017

This leaves behind important work @WomensRightsNPS has done to center #radroots such as Haudenosaunee women in our region, #ncph2017 #s56

— Monica L. Mercado (@monicalmercado) April 22, 2017