Finding their voices: the Williamsburg Bray School scholars’ legacy
Editor’s Note: This article is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of Colonial Williamsburg. In February 2023, I began working at the Colonial Williamsburg...
View ArticleProject Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore
Kin/Folk/Lore (KFL) is a community-led history project that uses grassroots storytelling to incite meaningful dialogues across cultures, generations, and localities in Philadelphia....
View ArticlePracticing public history on Wikipedia
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Madeline Hellmich is the winner of a graduate student travel award. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia,...
View ArticleShared Work: William & Mary’s Highland and The Lemon Project
William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and...
View ArticleRaising New Questions: Reframing the Semiquincentennial with Resources for...
Planning for the 250th anniversary (or Semiquincentennial) of the American Revolution, coming up in 2026, has already started for many historians and history institutions. The U.S. Semiquincentennial...
View ArticleEditor’s Corner: Community and Commemoration
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to...
View ArticleOur Side of the Tracks: Community Curation of Black History in Acworth,...
The second of two installments in a series exploring the development of the “Our Side of the Tracks” exhibit at Doyal Hill Park in Acworth, Georgia. Part One described the origins of the project,...
View ArticleBook clubs as public history
The Cortland Free Library designs a monthly flyer for the History Buffs’ Book Club. Image credit: Cortland Free Library. On the evening of November 12, 2020, during a live Zoom call with seven other...
View ArticleCreative nonfiction as public history: a Q&A with author Miles Harvey
Cover of The King of Confidence, published by Little, Brown, and Company in 2020. Editor’s Note: Miles Harvey is author of The King of Confidence, A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True...
View ArticleBringing History Indoors during a Pandemic
Editor’s note: How have local communities interacted with historians during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic? This post introduces the History Indoors project by two graduate students at the...
View ArticleRide or Die: the “Oregon Trail Live” Q&A
Guests at Caveat in New York City enjoy the immersive Oregon Trail Live event. Photo credit: Arin Sang-urai. Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Michael Salgarolo and Kylie Holloway to discuss their...
View ArticleRiding the 1919 Chicago Race riots: biking across divides to confront the past
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Chicago 1919 Project,...
View ArticleA Virtual Walking Tour in Decatur, Georgia: Linking Race, History, Community
Image from the virtual walking tour given by David Rotenstein on July 27, 2020. Screenshot courtesy of David Rotenstein. I teach a seminar on ethnography and community engagement in Goucher College’s...
View Article“What Could It Have [Been] Then?”: Reflecting on the origins and...
A big house. Stately trees. Curious outbuildings. In 1905, Pennsylvania-born tourist Matilda Kessinger marveled at the landscape before her, “something one always reads about but never sees.” After 18...
View ArticleManaging social media, doing public history
This summer, a team of National Council on Preservation Education (NCPE) interns oversaw the National Historic Landmarks Program’s social media accounts and explored firsthand how the creative chaos of...
View ArticleExcavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape...
View north along Interstate 287 at Exit 57 (Skyline Drive, Ringwood) in Oakland, Bergen County, New Jersey. Image credit Famartin This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share...
View ArticleExcavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape...
Cover of book resulting from a project funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities that built on Anita Bakshi’s design studio class focused on Ringwood, New Jersey, and the Ramapough Lunaape...
View ArticleMeeting people where they are: Reinterpreting Freeman Tilden
Cover of the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Tilden’s “Interpreting Our Heritage.” Image credit: UNC Press. Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts reflecting on a working group that met at the 2019...
View ArticleInterview with Kayla Duncan of the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition
Editors’ Note: When the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, in April 2018, grassroots Community Remembrance...
View ArticleScience and disability Q&A: Part 2
“How do you imagine the universe?” exhibition detail. Photo credit: Jessica Martucci (used with permission from the Science History Institute) Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series...
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