
public history

We might not be able to do much about what is going on right now in America, but we can at least document it. Here's a good essay on the.
I published an essay not long ago in Where Are the Workers? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites about the lack of labor history in National Park Service sites..
This is a good project: But, later this year, following years of concerted effort by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a memorial to the victims and survivors of the.
There is a grassroots effort out of Tulsa to turn Black Wall Street, the site of one of the worst race riots in American history, into a national monument. For.
This story from Illinois says so much about how hard it is to do public history with integrity. Just months after authoring a critical report that raised further questions about.
So last weekend I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at a union conference and then I spent a couple days traveling through Virginia. That part of the.
I appreciated this discussion of the Entrada celebration in Santa Fe, a now long-running tradition in the city reenacting the Spanish reconquest of it in 1692 after the Pueblo Revolt.
One thing that is interesting in the United States right now is that unlike ever before in our history, at least nearly everyone left of center is willing to deal.