Black community historians have long been the keepers of historical knowledge about places and local traditions that elite institutions have considered unimportant. As they age, who will carry on their work and preserve and keep the documentary record?
Michael Oberg and Joel Helfrich of SUNY-Geneseo's Center for Local and Municipal History discuss connecting history students with local historians to unearth and tell their region's history.
"It all goes back to when I was a child growing up in White Plains," said Mamie Hillman, executive director of the museum. "I always wanted to know — how did I enter into history?"
Historian Brent McKee presents a guide to sites around the greater Washington area that show how the New Deal transformed the region, from historic preservation to wastewater treatment.
Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs.
Managing director of the Tacoma Historical Society Michael Lafreniere never expected to unearth a glimpse into the Klan’s history in Washington state, and more particularly Tacoma.
“We want to provide critical perspective, we want to deepen understanding so that we can really take on this idea of reconciliation and healing,” said RRI chair Frederick Gooding Jr.
Christine Henry, an assistant professor of historic preservation at UMW, will contribute to this project with her fall semester upper level seminar “Diversity in Historic Preservation.”
The winner of a 2020 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History's new book focuses on the Battles of Saybrook Fort during the Pequot War.
Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.
Michael Fedo's 40-plus year old account of the public murders of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie is credited as the first complete resource on the events of June 15, 1920.
One woman is a descendant of people who were enslaved in Taneytown for generations. The other woman’s ancestors belonged to the family line of the owner of those slaves.
The University of Scranton's History Department Chair, Dr. David Szurec discusses the ways students engage with local history through service-learning.
