“In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act”: Public History’s Long Game

Marla Miller has directed the Public History Program at UMass Amherst since 2002. She is the author of several books and articles exploring themes in early American women’s labor history, as well as the co-editor, with Max Page, of Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), and the prizewinning study, with co-authors Anne Whisnant, Gary Nash, and David Thelen, Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (Organization of American Historians, 2012). She is also the founding editor of the UMass Press series Public History in Historical Perspective.