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 censorship of the Park Service employee sign at Muir Woods National Monument that became the...
public history
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..
It's time for something a bit more light hearted than usual. So here's this great story about how a bunch of teenagers who don't care about some old man named.
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 fire will be installed on the building’s brick and terra-cotta facade. The monument, designed by...
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.
What is the Trump Library going to look like? Former president Donald Trump will have an official portrait in the National Portrait Gallery at some point. And in states where.
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 the provenance of a multimillion dollar stovepipe hat purported to have been owned by President...
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.
Our history is all around us and yet most of us don't know it because there is no way to know it. Especially for much of our problematic history, there.
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 of 1680, the only successful Native revolt in the Americas. For the Hopis, they remained...
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.
During Trump's grotesque response to Charlottesville, he noted that if we take down statues of our heroes Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, where does it stop? Do we take.