public history

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• SOURCE: Dallas Weekly
  5/28/2020
  

  Dallas Awarded $50,000 to Preserve Civil Rights History

  "This funding from our country’s National Park Service will certainly jump start efforts to educate our community about the Hall of Negro Life, and it is a direct recommendation of the Task Force that examined how we tell our history," said Council Member Adam Bazaldua.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/31/2020
  

  Robert E. Lee Statue and Daughters of Confederacy Building Attacked by Richmond Protesters

  Confederate monuments across the South were vandalized during George Floyd demonstrations.

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• SOURCE: Zip06.com
  5/26/2020
  

  Old Saybrook Historical Society Wins Prestigious History Award, Publishes New Book

  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.

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• SOURCE: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
  5/25/2020
  

  Curator's Cut: An Inside Look at DC's Suffrage Exhibits (Wednesday May 27, 7:00 PM EDT)

  The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/24/2020
  

  Charlottesville Official Wants To Revisit Statues’ Removal

  The move could potentially inflame the controversy that led to deadly violence by far-right defenders of the Confederate memorials in 2017.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Beginning to Decide

  Historians including David Kennedy, Martha S. Jones, and Brenda Stevenson, along with curators at national and local museums, discuss the assembly of artifacts to document the COVID crisis for posterity. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/2020
  

  Pandemic Escape: Volunteers Transcribe Sally Ride’s Papers, Rosa Parks’s Recipes, Walt Whitman’s Poems

  Museums and research libraries are reporting huge spikes of do-it-yourself historians.

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• SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
  5/18/2020
  

  Columbus Historian Hits Streets in Search of African American Stories

  Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.

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• SOURCE: Gettysburg Connection
  5/15/2020
  

  Thavolia Glymph Appointed to Gettysburg Foundation Board

  Duke University Professor Thavolia Glymph joins the board of the foundation, which partners with the National Parks Service to preserve and promote historical sites near Gettysburg related to the Civil War battlefield and to the military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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• SOURCE: Hoodline
  5/18/2020
  

  Historians Brighten Shelter-in-Place with Vintage Photos Pinned to Telephone Poles

  OpenSFHistory is utilizing their collection of photographs to connect San Franciscans with their community during quarantine.

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• SOURCE: Chicago History Museum
  5/18/2020
  

  An Eyewitness to Studs

  To mark what would have been the 108th birthday of Studs Terkel, Peter T. Alter, CHM chief historian and director of the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, reflects on the memorable moments he shared with Studs at the Museum and Studs’s enduring cultural influence. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/18/2020
  

  "Rumors of War" Arrives in the South

  Kehinde Wiley's new sculpture serves as a rejoinder to the statues of Confederate leaders along Richmond's Monument Avenue. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/12/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

  From May 18-22, a group of five scholars will participate in a roundtable to discuss Hartman's most recent work.

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• SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  5/12/2020
  

  You're Witnessing History: Minnesota Historians Need Your Help to Document the Pandemic As It Happens

  Archivists are asking for blog posts, photos, signs, even T-shirts to capture pandemic history as it's happening. 

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• SOURCE: Architectural Digest
  5/5/2020
  

  A New Public Art Installation in Alexandria Confronts the City’s Ties to the Slave Trade

  Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous examines an oft-overlooked aspect of the Virginia port community’s history.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/3/2020
  

  Historical Archives Once Silenced Marginalized Voices. Now Pandemic Archivists Want Them to Be Heard.

  Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Conservation Association
  5/1/2020
  

  "An Honest Reckoning"

  Hundreds of people were once enslaved at the opulent  Hampton estate, but for decades after the site became part of the National Park System, their stories remained hidden.  That is changing. 

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• SOURCE: National Parks Service
  4/27/2020
  

  National Park Service Awards More than $3.1 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites

  The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  4/29/2020
  

  UPDATE: NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE “Bulletproofing America’s Public Space: Race, Remembrance, and Emmett Till,” a Lecture by Mabel O. Wilson

  Architectural Historian Mabel O. Wilson delivered the Cooper Union's annual Eleanore Pettersen Lecture on the memorialization of racial violence on April 29.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/2020
  

  Glenna Goodacre, Artist who Sculpted Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Dies at 80

  Ms. Goodacre's Vietnam Women’s Memorial, a 6-foot-8 bronze sculpture of three uniformed women and a wounded serviceman, honors the roughly 265,000 military women of the Vietnam era, about 10,000 of whom served in Vietnam itself.