PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.92
Evan Faulkenbury
{"title":"Howard Zinn’s Public History","authors":"Evan Faulkenbury","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.92","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Howard Zinn and his popular book A People’s History of the United States have been left out of conversations regarding the development of public history. Although Zinn did not identify as a public history scholar, his methods and goals offer lessons for public historians today. At the same time, his approach comes with warnings for what public historians should avoid. By considering public history through Zinn’s perspective, we can clarify goals for our public history projects today.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41557834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.139
Brian Murphy, Katie Owens-Murphy
{"title":"Public History in the Age of Insurrection","authors":"Brian Murphy, Katie Owens-Murphy","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.139","url":null,"abstract":"Public historians have struggled to take a hard line against neo-Confederate groups in theory as well as practice. This article proposes a methodological shift that can clarify the work and obligations of the public historian following the insurrection on January 6, 2021. The frame of action research positions historians as public-facing actors and advocates. The frame of restorative justice clarifies the stakes of, and stakeholders within, historical harm. We apply these frameworks to two contested sites for public history in Florence, Alabama, that revolve around the Confederacy. Finally, we use our experiences from the field to distinguish communities from counter-communities and provide strategies for making cultural institutions inhospitable to cultural insurrectionists.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48382823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.186
M. Saryusz-Wolska
{"title":"Review: Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History, by Christine Gundermann et al.","authors":"M. Saryusz-Wolska","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49283312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.183
Nicole Neatby
{"title":"Review: Public History: An Introduction from Theory to Application, by Jennifer Lisa Koslow","authors":"Nicole Neatby","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42376531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.164
A. Bain
{"title":"WINIKO: Life of an Object, First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma","authors":"A. Bain","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43543467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.173
Sara C. Evenson
{"title":"Cheap Old Houses, Critical Content and Roberts Media","authors":"Sara C. Evenson","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43542778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.9
Gregory E. Smoak
{"title":"Every History Has a Nature","authors":"Gregory E. Smoak","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Presidential addresses have always been in some measure personal reflections that aspire to engage broader issues facing our communities. Following that tradition, I will ground my talk today in my personal experience, in some of the work that I have done, but I also hope that in some small way it speaks to critical issues facing the public history community and indeed, all of our communities. At times over the past two years, it has seemed that the world was coming apart—a global pandemic, an ongoing reckoning with systemic racism and inequality, one of the most divisive elections in our country’s history, all set against the backdrop of a worsening climate crisis that poses an existential threat to the planet as we know it. I will not claim to have the answers today, but I do want to reflect upon some of the ways that the practice of public environmental history might help address some of the problems we face. In deciding on this topic, the COVID-19 pandemic loomed large. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. The pandemic has touched everything we have done individually and collectively over the past two years, which, as chance would have it, corresponded with my term as NCPH president. The real and potential impacts of the pandemic, your health and well-being being chief among them, were constant considerations as the staff and leadership of our organization worked to provide the programming and support you expect and deserve while carefully stewarding the organization’s resources. That meant making some tough decisions, most notably moving three successive annual meetings online. Although the next couple of years will continue to pose challenges, I am proud to say that NCPH is on a solid footing. The pandemic also transformed my day job—teaching Native American, environmental, and public history at the University of Utah. While reacting to the initial lockdown in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester was not seamless, things got","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47842352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.181
Morgan Seamont
{"title":"Review: Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism, by Marc Stein","authors":"Morgan Seamont","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45122521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.58
Stephanie E. Gray
{"title":"“Restoring” Charleston’s Dock Street Theatre","authors":"Stephanie E. Gray","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.58","url":null,"abstract":"The imaginative reconstruction of the Dock Street Theatre, completed between 1935 and 1937 in Charleston, South Carolina, was a New Deal experiment in historic preservation. Funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and led by local architects Albert Simons and Samuel Lapham, the orchestrated re-creation of a lost eighteenth-century theater reflected the white elite’s desire to immortalize the city’s prosperous colonial and antebellum past in the historic built environment. While the project courted conservative interests and created a romanticized version of Old Charleston, the strong support of Democratic mayor Burnet Maybank and WPA director Harry L. Hopkins simultaneously pushed forward a progressive southern agenda. This dual and contradictory set of motivations culminated in an intriguing use of historic preservation to nurture a particular community’s sense of place and use historic buildings as a catalyst for cultural rebirth.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47289511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.24
Nino Testa
{"title":"“If You Are Reading It, I am Dead”: Activism, Local History, and the AIDS Quilt","authors":"Nino Testa","doi":"10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.24","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article uses oral history interviews with the family and friends of Duane Puryear to document the history of one of the most frequently displayed panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The approaching fortieth anniversary of the Quilt and its recent acquisition by the National AIDS Memorial warrant a reexamination of how we engage with the Quilt as archive. Puryear’s panel demonstrates how we might use this enormous community art project to excavate local histories of activism in response to HIV and AIDS; it also challenges reductive political histories of the Quilt that view it as in binary opposition to histories of direct-action groups like ACT UP.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48678005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}