September 2018
Fredericksburg Independent Book Festival
Book fair with authors, books, and merchandise.
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PA Historical Association Annual Conference
Theme in 2018 is "City, County, Commonwealth, and Country: Local and Regional..."
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“Museums on the Move” Centennial Conference
The NEMA Conference. It's outlasted 16 U.S. presidents, two world wars, moon shots, pet rocks, and the Disco craze. Since 1919, thousands and thousands of museum professionals have gained new insights, inspiration, and friendships at the NEMA Conference. There's something to be said for tradition like that. Panel Organizer: “The Outsiders: Makers & Creatives Working with History Outside the Museum” Description of my panel: In this demonstration, the history of New Haven, Connecticut is seen through the makers and creatives…
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National Council on Public History
National Council on Public History Session: Monuments Roundtable “Repair Work” 2019 Annual Meeting Public historians have long been engaged in acts of repair. We restore and preserve objects and buildings. We reconstruct fragmentary evidence about the past and reconsider the stories it has been used to tell, including stories about past commemorations themselves. We contribute, directly or indirectly, to economic and civic revitalization efforts. Increasingly, we also align our work with social and environmental projects of reparation, putting ourselves in…
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Monuments, Museums and Murals: Preservation, Commemoration and American Identity
Commemorating the Past, Healing the Present, Working for the Future: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama In April 2018, a new milestone in the presentation of American cultural heritage opened in Montgomery, Alabama: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, founded by the non-profit organization Equal Justice Initiative. In a memorial landscape widely dominated by the heritage of the Confederacy in the American South, this memorial sticks out: both by its clear intention to confront the…
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Canadian Historical Association: Conversations across time, place, and culture
Teaching Public History Public History routinely captures headlines across North America, with the struggle over monuments, textbooks, educational priorities and flags occupying centre stage in battles over how people remember, form identities and project their desired way of life on to their communities. It is a major public issue and one in which passion may spill over into violence and pedagogical control. Within this rests the obvious question of who decides what is taught, commemorated or remembered. Post-secondary institutions that…
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