Category: Digital History

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”