public history

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/10/2019
  

  After all who were there are gone, what happens to history?

  People are more likely to engage with history if other actual people — not facts or data or even anecdotes — can act as guides and say, even in subjectivity-saturated ways: This is what it felt like.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2019
  

  Why we’re letting Americans vote, marry and drink far too young

  by Holly N.S. White

  Age is not a perfect qualifier of ability or maturity.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2019
  

  In our tumultuous times, history offers hope

  by Katrina vanden Heuvel

  In his book, my father ceaselessly reminds us that hard work and idealism can create change.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/17/19
  

  Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates

  by J.T. Roane

  As the Director of African American History at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, she is responsible for engaging local and national audiences in conversations about slavery and its legacies.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  3/7/19
  

  American Civil War Museum CEO Christy Coleman Profiled in Forbes

  “To paraphrase Harriett Tubman,” she says, “you want change in your life, don't be afraid to trouble the waters.”

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• 3/3/19
  

  Battlefield Tourism At Ypres and How Public History Sites Change

  by Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel

  Modern Ypres or Ieper is a world forged and shaped in the furnace of a conflict that ended one hundred years ago this November. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/22/19
  

  Boston Mayor Mary Walsh Proposes Public History Project to Recognize Boston's Long Ties to Slavery

  Boston is taking a step toward recognizing the role slavery played at one of its most visited landmarks.

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• SOURCE: Herald Mail Media
  2/22/19
  

  Shepard University and Loyola University Awarded Grant to Create Historical Database

  The project is a collaboration between Bankhurst and Roberts that aims to make the letters and petitions of British loyalists who fled the American Revolution housed in the British National Archives available in a digital archive.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/21/19
  

  Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts

  A Tufts University project seeks to make “history more visible” — from slavery to Black Lives Matter — with a map of historic African-American sites in Boston and beyond.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-21-17
  

  Why being a historian is about so much more than producing displays for museums

  by Tim Cole

  "We were struck by the way that the most successful collaborations were ones where the distinct identities of arts and humanities researchers and businesses in the creative industries blurred. "

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-26-17
  

  Harvard's Moshik Temkin pens op ed in the NYT warning historians not to use analogies

  by Moshik Temkin

  Historians have a role as pundits, he argues, but they have to resist the impulse to oversimplify the news.

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• 4-20-14
  

  Should History Become a Brand?

  by Victoria Torres

  At a meeting of the National Council for Public History in Monterey, California, historians had an answer.

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• 3-24-14
  

  Nick Kristof Ought to Be Paying Attention to History Camp

  by Elizabeth M. Covart

  The first ever unconference for independent historians proved to be a remarkable success.

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• 2-27-14
  

  With State Funding Drying Up, Museums and Archives Turn to the Private Sector

  by Victoria Torres

  Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.

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• 1-2-14
  

  How to Get Funding for Public History

  by David Austin Walsh

  According to an AHA panel, simply by doing what public historians do best: by building relationships with the local community.