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Public History

2014

Selected Works

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Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker Oct 2014

Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker

Margo Shea

This article explores the challenges and opportunities that accompany efforts on the ground to nurture innovation as we promote stewardship, preserve valued places, advance education, and facilitate citizens’ connection to their parks and historic sites in the second century of the National Park Service. Using the first nationally designated historic site, Salem Maritime, as a case study, we examine efforts to grapple with bureaucratic inertias, entrenched patterns of insularity, and reliance on top-down authority. Support from leadership is necessary to allow education and interpretation staff on the ground to invite scholars, teachers, school districts, community educators, park neighbors, and others …

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What I’Ve Learned Along The Way: A Public Historian’S Intellectual Odyssey, Robert R. Weyeneth Apr 2014

What I’Ve Learned Along The Way: A Public Historian’S Intellectual Odyssey, Robert R. Weyeneth

Robert R. Weyeneth

In this biographically reflective essay, the author identifies two themes that have informed his public history work in communities with historical secrets, in civil rights history, and on the architecture of racial segregation: the importance of acknowledging and remembering the ‘‘dark past’’ and of asking questions from the perspective of place. His projects have taught him to look for the pukas or gaps, to cast down his bucket and engage nearby history, to think ecologically by hitching case studies to broad patterns of meaning, and to accept that the impact of projects may be catalytic rather than conclusive. He argues …

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All Things Were Working Together For My Deliverance: The Life And Times Of Twelve Years A Slave, Mary Niall Mitchell Jan 2014

All Things Were Working Together For My Deliverance: The Life And Times Of Twelve Years A Slave, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

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Interdisciplinary Workshop In Legal Studies, Patricia Reid Dec 2013

Interdisciplinary Workshop In Legal Studies, Patricia Reid

Patricia Reid

National Endowment for Humanities/Institute for Constitutional History, Seminar in Constitutional History

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Slavery And The Laws Of War, Patricia Reid Dec 2013

Slavery And The Laws Of War, Patricia Reid

Patricia Reid

National Endowment for Humanities/Institute for Constitutional History, Seminar in Constitutional History

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The Athenian Agora Museum Guide, Laura Gawlinski Dec 2013

The Athenian Agora Museum Guide, Laura Gawlinski

Laura Gawlinski

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora — the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly opened upper story. The guide also discusses each case in the museum gallery chronologically, beginning with the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Hundreds of artifacts, ranging from common pottery to elite jewelry held in 81 cases, are described and illustrated in …

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Yellowstone, The World's Wonderland, Tamsen Hert Dec 2013

Yellowstone, The World's Wonderland, Tamsen Hert

Tamsen Hert

Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the world. This encyclopedia article reviews the history of the creation of the park in portions of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

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