Top Tweets for #ASHP35
@JimGrossmanAHA Common way 2 redress Confederate monuments: erecting memorials to #BlackFreedomStruggle -- not slavery or lynchings #ASHP35
@JimGrossmanAHA "Nearly all historians should be public historians...Most people can be taught to write clearly, at the very least." #ASHP35
Q at #ASHP35: Role of historiographical thinking & exposition in public history presentation?Can/should public history incl historiography?
Question: to what extent can we create digital archives of everything and not be overwhelmed by it? #ASHP35
Video games create opportunities for immersion, interactivity, agency #ASHP35
In the midst of a radical transformation of public history, largely because of digital technology: video games #ASHP35
@LizSevcenko: second iteration of public memory project was on #massincarcertion done @TheNewSchool's Humanities Action Lab #ASHP35
@LizSevcenko: how can the process of doing history be part of a program of collective civic engagement? #ASHP35 @TheNewSchool
@LizSevcenko of @TheNewSchool up next: her generations of public historians took achievements of ASHP for granted #ASHP35
Challenge for the digital era is to get young people to value images as families used to value photographs #ASHP35
D.Cohen: DPLA has digitized 14.4 million items from 2100 archival collections across US. Includes very small archives #ASHP35
Danny Walkowitz: "Social history is not just about adding people to the story, it's about who is privileged." #ASHP35
"History is one of the few areas where the teaching does not necessarly reflct the state of the field." #ASHP35
Contreras at #ASHP35 "Public history is not public information". Raises complexities of definition of public history.
"Sometimes public history is not public information." #ASHP35
#Historians: ask yourself when was the last time you sat down and listened to a high school history teacher about their work. #ASHP35
See https://t.co/aGX0y20bMK on implications of "again." When/What was great? #Everythinghasahistory including teaching history #ASHP35 https://t.co/03WRbohHyA
ASHP "made teaching history great again." #ASHP35
Raises question of audience, or better, audiences. There is no such thing as "the public." Can historians reach multiple audiences? #ASHP35 https://t.co/xwkNnFfEpm
Michael Frisch, @SUNYBuffalo: If all we've done is change the story, we haven't done enough: we need to make connections to audience #ASHP35
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