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Read people's livetweets of our working group "Insider/Outsider: Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation," as well as my recap/reflection thread. Now on Wakelet! Be sure to check out

Ah, the joys of studying sexuality! I'm interested in addressing the taboos surrounding the use of explicit primary sources in "respectable" historical scholarship. What connotations do words

How and where would you dispense $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000; and $10,000,000 to have maximum impact for public history? $10,000 $3,000 grants to three people of color from low-income neighborhoods.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Vegas, baby! I'm at the NCPH 2018 conference this week and TOMORROW, myself and ten other public historians will be meeting to continue what has been nearly a year-long online

This week's reading – the 2005 Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections – centers on the tenuousness of our physical cultural heritage. From books to photos, textiles to furniture,

Our reading for this week – a report by the the Wyncote Foundation titled "Like, Link, Share" – explores how cultural institutions are embracing digital technology. One common and relatively

Miss last week's Public History Community Forum? Want to relive the glory? Review the fantastic insights and wisdom our speakers had to offer! Check out this Wakelet collection I created. And be sure to

PubComm 2018 is set for TOMORROW – Thursday, April 4th, 10am-3pm at the William Way LGBT Community Center (1315 Spruce St). Register here. This year's theme is Racism & Resistance. We'll be dialoguing

My colleague @dduquette provided us with a great summary and synthesis of this week's readings – The Library Company of Philadelphia's 1987 annual report (penned by James Green), Derek Fincham's “Deaccession

As a highschooler, one of my favorite sites was a Tumblr called F— Yeah, Queer Vintage (now inactive). Posting an array of vaguely labeled, misattributed, and/or uncited visual culture that reflected

Read Part 1 . White project leaders-cum-saviors have redoubled their efforts to co-opt politically-driven, civically-engaged public history from POC, citing "the importance of our work in these dark

My engagement with history has almost always been mediated through a white institution. In an act of virtue signaling or in order to meet the quotas set out in "inclusive" strategic plans, historians

My colleagues have done a great job responding to our readings for this week – Stephen A. Greyser and Stephanie Woerner's 1996 case study on the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the 1999 agreement

In my last post, I proposed funding three local, mid-size organizations of color for a collaborative public history project. Here's some background on them (from GuideStar and the organization sites).

This post is based on the Barra Foundation's LOI guidelines, which can be found here. Problem Traditional historical institutions rigidly adhere to canonical narratives, nudging aside whiteness or elitism

What happens when you search "1918" on GIPHY? You get a scattered mess of ambiguous clips – a jumble of seemingly anonymous moments from one hundred years ago. Without taking the time to scour

When it comes to interpreting, preserving and presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big, midsized and small institutions? First, we must consider how we are defining the size of these

The popular historical imagination has led most of us to believe that, one hundred years ago, people were stuffy, repressed, and much too concerned with propriety to be any fun. Indeed, how has our idea

TCC’s Ten Keys to Strategic Planning, provides a solid overview of nonprofit strategic planning – its goals and processes, plus examples of positive outcomes. It offers succinct definitions of differences

This post draws its title from the great activist anthology 'The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.' Nonprofits disrupt radical social change by institutionalizing