...Cheryl X. Dong In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Panther Community News Service became a major vehicle that showcased the Black Panther Party’s engagement with historical narratives, memory, and commemoration. The work done by the Black Panther Party should be read as a public history...

..., and national historic preservation and environmental groups. These included the option of no federal involvement except for federal grants and continued resource protection from the FWS; a national memorial, funded by the National Park Service, in collaboration with the state of Maryland; or the creation...

... recent story of decline, and a longer aspirational dream of a shared commons. Grounded in the material world that they observe around them, the current inhabitants assemble these diverse memories in anachronic ways, around multiple experiences of time such as nostalgia, a sense of disenfranchisement...

... commemoration contamination Michigan memory social justice In 1992, Channel 9&10 News in Cadillac, Michigan, aired a five-part series on the nineteenth anniversary of the PBB disaster. The series explained how the event unfolded: in 1973, Michigan Chemical Company (MCC), owned by Velsicol...

... assertions of Georgian “Europeanness.” The sites raise important questions about the role museums play in the preservation of a contested past and in shaping divergent visions of national memory and identity. MUSEUMS , V I SUAL CULTURE , AND MEMORY Unfortunately, Some Mistakes Were Made Joseph Stalin...

...Michael A. Capps Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is an example of one memorial site that has successfully managed to retain relevance for nearly one hundred years by adapting to changes in scholarship and the expectations of its visitors. Initially created as a purely commemorative site, it has...

... it out of the way for a music stage. This case study illustrates how Union monuments (similarly to Confederate monuments) represented local pride, masculine ideals, racial beliefs, and community values. Over time, however, original purposes faded from memory. By debating whether or not the statue should...

...Juliana Sandoval Álvarez Studies on Chile’s transition to democracy after Pinochet’s regime regarding memory, history, and public space have focused mainly on their massive visual/material expressions, either officially sponsored or created by oppositional activists. Few have studied the battle...

... Council on Public History 2019 LGBTQ history museums women’s history southern history memory Woman, Southern, Bisexual Interpreting Ma Rainey and Carson McCullers in Columbus, Georgia Rebecca Bush ABSTRACT: This report from the field examines the interpretation of two notable queer women from...

... and the National Council on Public History 2017 industrial heritage regional identity deindustrialization memory Ruhr Burdens of Eternity? Heritage, Identity, and the Great Transition in the Ruhr Stefan Berger, Christian Wicke, and Jana Golombek ABSTRACT: The industrial past has become...

...Anna Harris Sensory experiences are often considered triggers of memory, most famously a little French cake dipped in lime blossom tea. Sense memory can also be evoked in public history research through techniques of elicitation. In this article I reflect on different social science methods...

... of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2014 Public History Skills Place, Memory, and Climate Change David Glassberg Abstract: Scientists warn about the difficulty of predicting ecological relationships as climate conditions for many places begin to move well outside...

... History 2013 War of 1812 commemorations international memory Crossing Borders: Public History Conversations on the War of 1812 Bicentennial Online and in Print Activities marking the bicentennial of the War of 1812 are active and ongoing, involving scholars, re-enactors, museum professionals...

..., it proposes ways in which further study and practice can illuminate our understanding of the public and its pasts. © 2012 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History. All rights reserved. 2012 theatre memory performance re-enactment national surveys...

... Register of Historic Places. According to that report, historic sites were to “give a sense of orientation to our society” and help to implant in people “values of time and place.” This article looks at the evolution of historic districts in Chicago, Illinois through the lens of public memory. It explores...

... and vernacular expressions of public memory as well as some of the limitations that interpreting ideological radicalism reveals in public historical practice. It examines the history and discourses surrounding the Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial at the Boston Public Library, the Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day...

.... Examples from Bali and Java show how hard it is to memorialize the killings, and thus the difficulties of incorporating the killings into national discourse. © 2010 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History. All rights reserved. 2010 Indonesia coup...

... development tourism reconstruction reenacting authenticity memory National Park Administrative History at Fort Stanwix National Monument Introduction Key words: Administrative history, Fort Stanwix National Monument, National Park Service, contract history, oral history, historic preservation...

... alive the memories of District Six and displaced people everywhere. It is a space where the forgotten understandings of the past are resuscitated, and where different interpretations of that past are facilitated. The museum also assists in the reconstitution of the community of District Six and Cape...

...MARIA LAURA GUEMBE Memoria Abierta 's work responds to the need for a dialogue in Argentina among human rights organizations, the government, and civil society that will stimulate the formation of a collective memory about the history of State-led terrorism in the country. Processing documents...