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A Washington neighborhood uses history to plan its future
Bloomingdale residents listen to project leaders describe the oral history project, May 21, 2016. Photo credit: David Rotenstein. Residents of Washington, D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighborhood are using...
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It’s not “just a musical”
In the four months since my review of Hamilton: An American Musical was first published in The Public Historian, my ideas have been met with a wide variety of reactions. This blog published four...
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Project Showcase: Hear, Here
“Hear, Here” volunteer Jennifer DeRocher dials one of the toll-free numbers in downtown La Crosse. Photo Credit: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is an...
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Spirit of the season
Promotional photo for Stratford Hall’s “Stratford After Dark” event. Photo credit: Stratford Hall Facebook Page. It is Halloween time and ghosts are once again a topic of discussion. Last October works...
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Project Showcase: Georgia Journeys
Individuals featured in “Georgia Journeys” posing at the exhibit opening. Photo credit: Kate Daly Last Sunday, October 23, 2016, marked the opening of Georgia Journeys: Legacies of World War II , a new...
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Project Showcase: Trump’s Gambling Heritage Tour
Levi Fox discusses recent Atlantic City history outside the former Trump Plaza, which closed in 2014. Photo credit: backpackbears Public historians are occasionally presented with opportunities to...
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Sticky notes as tools for public history
Prince memorial exhibition, Minnesota Historical Society. Photo credit: Screenshot from MHS “Remembering Prince” video Several years ago, on a visit to the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte,...
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The American Civilization Institute: A case study in radical public history...
Gene Weltfish, founder of the ACIM. Typically, the origins of public history education have been traced either to early twentieth-century applied history programs or to the first named public history...
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Where do we go from here? Searching for relevance in NPS interpretive...
A. G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the new Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument. Photo credit Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress The National Park Service’s centennial year...
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Project Showcase: History Hub
Screenshot credit: History Hub The Internet has changed the way nearly every profession shares knowledge and communicates with the public. In the last few years archivists and historians working for...
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Reclaiming queer historical space
Editor’s Note: In his article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” which appears in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, Gregory Rosenthal...
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Public history in the classroom
Sharing Stories: College students and teens dialoging at the community center.” Photo credit: Elizabeth Belanger Over the past weeks my project colleagues have provided glimpses into public history’s...
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Make queerness relevant again
Poster for Sporter’s, one of Boston’s earliest gay bars, c. 1960s. Image credit: William Conrad Collection, The History Project, Boston. Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of posts...
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Inclusive training at Historic Columbia
The Wilson family constructed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home in Columbia, South Carolina during Reconstruction but only lived in the community for four years. Photo credit: Historic Columbia. Believed...
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Helen Matthews Lewis: An unruly woman tests historical authority
“If you just pussy foot around and try to be safe, you won’t get anything done, and they’ll still fire you. Might as well accomplish all you can.” Helen Matthews Lewis with a group of miners. This...
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Project Showcase: Gilmore Girls and the Stars Hollow Historical Society
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons After Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premiered in November 2016, my fellow Temple University graduate students Ted Maust and Ariel Natalo-Lifton and I started...
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PastForward: Places, voices, and livability
Photo credit: David Keith Photography This past fall in Houston, the National Trust for Historic Preservation gathered for its annual conference, PastForward. One of the key features of the conference...
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Sharing Yemeni history in Coldwater, Michigan
Visitors enjoying the exhibit at Tibbits Opera House. Photo credit: Tammy Barnes. In 2015, the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater, Michigan began a two-year project called “Cultural Exchange Coldwater”...
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The path to cultural sensitivity? Inclusion and co-curation
Exhibition planning meeting in Los Angeles, Go For Broke National Education Center. Photo credit: Chris Brusatte and Go For Broke National Education Center Historical interpretation has come a long way...
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Day of Public Humanities
Like “public history,” “public humanities” is a concept that seems relatively straightforward but quickly proves hard to define and explain (especially when we are asked to do so by our friends and...
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