Historic Preservation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Anne Delano Steinert, University of Cincinnati
Read
- Priya Chayya, “Historic Preservation,” Inclusive Historians Handbook, 2020.
To Do
- Continue working on your final grants
Category: Archives
Week 13: April 7
The City As Text
Read
- Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place
- Center for Culture, History, and Environment, “Reading an Urban Landscape”
To Do
- All A-Twitter #10
- Comp Notes #5 on The Power of Place
- Grant Assignment: Draft #1 Due
Professional Development & Skills | Grant Writing
Explore
- Grant Writing Basics, Grants.gov Community Blog
- Lisa Chasan-Taber, “10 Tips for Successful Grant Writing,” Chronicle of Higher Education
- Jennifer Guiliano and Simon Appleford, “Grants,” DevDH
Week 9: Mar 10
Community History & Ethics
Read
- Chris Taylor, “Diversity and Inclusion,” Inclusive Historians Handbook, 2020
- Eira Tansley, “No one owes their trauma to archivists, or, the commodification of contemporaneous collecting,” 2020
- GVGK Tang, “We need to talk about public history’s columbusing problem,” History@Work, 2020
- Bergis Jules and Ed Summers, “Documenting the Now: Ethics White Paper,” 2018
- Karlyn Forner, “Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future: Building the SNCC Digital Gateway,” in Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
Think
How can we define these terms: diversity, inclusion, columbusing, and decolonization? What questions of ethics do these readings explore in relationship to different types of community collecting, especially in communities of color? What are some ways we can address these questions of ethics head on and change our own public history practices?
To Do
- All A-Twitter #7
- Mini-Presentation: Choose one of the resources below from The Inclusive Historians Handbook and prepare a creative presentation or activity that will communicate the key concepts to me and your classmates:
- Denise D. Meringolo, “Civic Engagement”
- Cynthia M. Koch, “U.S. Presidents”
- M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, “U.S. Bicentennial, 1976”
- Ann Pfau, David Hochfelder, and Stacy Sewell, “Urban Renewal”
- Jill Ogline Titus, “Reconstruction”
- GVGK Tang, “Sexuality”
- Robert Baron, “Public Folklore”
- Jessie Swigger, “Outdoor History Museums”
- Mary Rizzo, “Humanities Councils”
- Adina Langer, “Holocaust History”
- Kenneth C. Turino, “Historic House Museums”
- Michelle Moon and Cathy Stanton, “Food History”
Week 8: Mar 3
Diverse Voices, Archival Silences, and Representation
Read / Listen / Watch
- Matika Wilbur & Adrienne Keene, Episode 1, “All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism,” All My Relations, 2019
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED Talk (2009)
- Ashley Farmer, “Archiving While Black,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2018
- Dominique Luster, “Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices,” TEDxPittsburgh (2018)
- Bergis Jules, “Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives,” 2016
Think
What factors contribute to archival silences, and what can be done to mitigate these silences? By archivists? By members of marginalized communities? Bergis Jules talks about how archives dictate “who is remembered and how they’re remembered,” and that “how [people are remembered] dictates who gets violence perpetrated against them.” What are some examples of this? How do these examples contribute to our understanding of how archives have been and could be used?
To Do
Week 7: Feb 24
Rapid Response Collecting
Read
- Sheila Brennan and Mills Kelly, “Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5,” Roy Rosenzweig Center, March 2009
- (a reflection on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank)
- Jim McGrath, “Our Marathon, five years later: Reflections on the work of digital public humanities,” History@Work, 2018
- (a reflection on the Boston Marathon bombing)
- Elizabeth Pandolfi, “How Rapid-Response Exhibits Are Changing the Way Museums Engage Their Communities,” Next City, 2019
- Ashley Maynor, “Five ways we can do better to respond to crises in our communities,” History@Work, 2018
- Liza Dale-Hallett, “Making meaning from ashes—the development of the Victorian Bushfires Collection,” History@Work, 2018
- Tammi Kim, “Archiving the 1 October web,” History@Work, 2018
- Ashley Maynor, “Places of Refuge, Keepers of Memory,” History@Work, 2018
Think
What is Rapid Response Collecting (RRC)? What are some of the challenges with rapid response collecting? In what ways can archivists and museum personnel mitigate them? What are the ‘best practices’ of RRC? What can collecting teams learn from RRC examples that can be applied to other types of archival work? Who should be in charge of rapid response collecting during/after a major event in a community? Why? Who are the stakeholders, and how might their goals overlap or differ?
