... 2024 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2024 National Park Service Job Corps War on Poverty civil rights Maine Tucked away behind the headquarters of Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine, is what, from a distance, looks like...

...Elizabeth Belanger Detailing a collaboration between middle school students and undergraduate students to create a local civil rights public art/public history project, this essay explores the promises and pitfalls of public historians working in their communities. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day...

.... Thematically, showcasing the Black experience in Pittsburgh provided a chance to provoke among a wider public more nuanced understandings of the civil rights movement, an era particularly prone to problematic and superficial misreadings, but also to interject an African American perspective...

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