National Council on Public History Keynote Address, 2015: Edges, Ledges, and the Limits of Craft: Imagining Historical Work beyond the Boundaries

Tiya Miles is the Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches in the departments of American Culture, Afroamerican & African Studies, History, Native American Studies, and Women’s Studies. She is the author of two prize-winning works of history: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005) and The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (2010). She is co-editor, with Sharon P. Holland, of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (2006). Miles’s first novel, The Cherokee Rose (2015) is set on a haunted plantation in the Cherokee territory of present-day Georgia, and her most recent academic study, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (2015) analyzes southern ghost tours.