This diverse anthology addresses both historical research and interpretive methodologies, including investigating church and legal records, using social media, navigating sensitive or difficult topics, preserving historic places, engaging students and communities, and strengthening connections between local and national history.
This diverse anthology addresses both historical research and interpretive methodologies, including investigating church and legal records, using social media, navigating sensitive or difficult topics, preserving historic places, engaging students and communities, and strengthening connections between local and national history.
Max A. van Balgooy is president of Engaging Places LLC, a design and strategy firm that connects people and historic places. He works with a wide range of historic sites on interpretive planning and business strategy, from Drayton Hall to Taliesin West. These experiences provide a rich source of ideas for EngagingPlaces.net, where he blogs regularly about the opportunities and challenges facing historic sites and house museums. He serves on the AASLH Council and teaches in the museum studies program at George Washington University, and received his degrees in history from Pomona College and the University of Delaware (Hagley Fellow).
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Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch, III Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Pride and Prejudice: Interpreting Slavery at the Homes of Five Founding Fathers, Amanda Seymour Chapter 2: Developing Comprehensive and Conscientious Interpretation of Slavery at Historic Sites and Museums, Kristin L. Gallas and James DeWolf Perry Chapter 3: Interpreting Difficult Knowledge, Julia Rose Chapter 4: Expanding Interpretation at Historic Sites: When Change Brings Conflict, David W. Young Chapter 5: There is a Doctor in the House--and he's Black, Michelle L. McClellan Chapter 6: Finding Sarah Bickford, William Peterson Chapter 7: Documenting Local African American Community History, Lila Teresa Church Chapter 8: Interpreting the Upper-Ground Railroad, Matthew Pinsker Chapter 9: Churches as Places of History: The Case of Nineteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina, Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Chapter 10: Imagining Slave Square: Resurrecting History through Cemetery Research and Interpretation, D L Henderson Chapter 11: Furnishing Slave Quarters and Free Black Homes: Adding a Powerful Tool to Interpreting African American Life, Martha B. Katz-Hyman Chapter 12: Six Degrees of Separation: Using Social Media and Digital Platforms to Enhance African American History Projects, Lynn Rainville Chapter 13: Asking Big Questions of a Small Place, George W. McDaniel Chapter 14: Power in Limits: Narrow Frames Open Up African American Public History, Benjamin Filene Chapter 15: Connecting Students with Community History, Stacia Kuceyeski Chapter 16: Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freedom Fighter?, Andrea K. Jones Chapter 17: Preserving Los Angeles' African American Historic Places, Jenny Scanlin and Teresa Grimes Chapter 18: More Than Just a Building: Interpreting the Legacy of the Frederick Douglass Elementary School, Wendi Manuel-Scott and Sara Howard-O'Brien Chapter 19: Soul Soldiers: Giving Voice to Vietnam's Veterans, Robbie Davis Chapter 20: Making African American History Relevant through Co-Creation and Community Service Learning, Robert Connolly and Ana M. Rea Chapter 21: The Scottsboro Boys Museum: University-Community Collaboration Yields Unanticipated Results, Ellen Griffith Spears and Shelia Washington Selected Bibliography on the Interpretation of African American History and Culture National Organizations Index About the Author and Contributors
Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch, III Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Pride and Prejudice: Interpreting Slavery at the Homes of Five Founding Fathers, Amanda Seymour Chapter 2: Developing Comprehensive and Conscientious Interpretation of Slavery at Historic Sites and Museums, Kristin L. Gallas and James DeWolf Perry Chapter 3: Interpreting Difficult Knowledge, Julia Rose Chapter 4: Expanding Interpretation at Historic Sites: When Change Brings Conflict, David W. Young Chapter 5: There is a Doctor in the House--and he's Black, Michelle L. McClellan Chapter 6: Finding Sarah Bickford, William Peterson Chapter 7: Documenting Local African American Community History, Lila Teresa Church Chapter 8: Interpreting the Upper-Ground Railroad, Matthew Pinsker Chapter 9: Churches as Places of History: The Case of Nineteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina, Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Chapter 10: Imagining Slave Square: Resurrecting History through Cemetery Research and Interpretation, D L Henderson Chapter 11: Furnishing Slave Quarters and Free Black Homes: Adding a Powerful Tool to Interpreting African American Life, Martha B. Katz-Hyman Chapter 12: Six Degrees of Separation: Using Social Media and Digital Platforms to Enhance African American History Projects, Lynn Rainville Chapter 13: Asking Big Questions of a Small Place, George W. McDaniel Chapter 14: Power in Limits: Narrow Frames Open Up African American Public History, Benjamin Filene Chapter 15: Connecting Students with Community History, Stacia Kuceyeski Chapter 16: Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freedom Fighter?, Andrea K. Jones Chapter 17: Preserving Los Angeles' African American Historic Places, Jenny Scanlin and Teresa Grimes Chapter 18: More Than Just a Building: Interpreting the Legacy of the Frederick Douglass Elementary School, Wendi Manuel-Scott and Sara Howard-O'Brien Chapter 19: Soul Soldiers: Giving Voice to Vietnam's Veterans, Robbie Davis Chapter 20: Making African American History Relevant through Co-Creation and Community Service Learning, Robert Connolly and Ana M. Rea Chapter 21: The Scottsboro Boys Museum: University-Community Collaboration Yields Unanticipated Results, Ellen Griffith Spears and Shelia Washington Selected Bibliography on the Interpretation of African American History and Culture National Organizations Index About the Author and Contributors
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