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“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...
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A 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...
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Riding 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,...
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Ride 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...
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Bringing 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...
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Creative 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...
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Book 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...
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Our 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,...
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Editor’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...
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Raising 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...
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Shared 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...
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Practicing 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,...
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Project 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....
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