Author Interview: Interpreting LGBT History
Susan Ferentinos, author of Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, is interviewed by CrossTies contributing editor Linda Shopes.
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2015 Fredric Miller Lecture
Katherine Ott was the guest speaker for the seventeenth, and final, annual Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 10.
Three Events This April
MARCH and OHMAR (Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region) formed a partnership to host three major events for public historians on the Rutgers University-Camden campus.
Clement Price: Master Crafter of a Vital Public Square
Clement A. Price, who died November 5, 2014, following a stroke, compiled an extraordinary record of public humanities work that serves as inspiration for practitioners across the region and beyond.
Stadium Added to Paterson National Historic Park
In December 2014, a bill was approved to include Hinchliffe Stadium to the Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park in […]
Demographic Changes in the U.S.: What Do They Mean for the Humanities?
By Linda Shopes If current trends continue, by 2060 58 percent of the population of the United States will be […]
Student Community Action Tours: Using the Humanities to Develop Leadership and Inspire Change
In the summer of 2012, middle school students in a leadership training program hosted by the advocacy group Asian Americans United in Philadelphia read about local resistance to plans to locate a new Phillies stadium in Chinatown a decade earlier. They then studied a map of the neighborhood and considered how siting the stadium there might have had different meanings for different groups – people who lived in Chinatown, people who worked there, local government, businesses and real estate companies, and the police, for example.
Reimagining the Nation: Maps, Censuses, and Museums
Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, delivered the 2014 Fredric M. Miller Lecture on May 8 at the Philadelphia History Museum.
Food, Farming, and Public Humanities
Cultural anthropologist Cathy Stanton is used to conducting fieldwork wherever opportunities present themselves. In the summer of 2010 that included actual fields.
Relevance, Connection, Surprise: The NMAJH Seeks to Meet Contemporary Challenges
In the latest in the Cross Ties occasional series featuring the reflections of new leaders of humanities organizations in the Mid-Atlantic, […]