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Excited to present a project from my Intro to Public History class with @TXSTHistory undergraduate student Matthew Medina at the #RealPlaces23 conference today! @TxHistComm@txstla
My review essay on recent histories of schools, cities, and inequality was published in the Journal of Urban History this week. Check it out and read these books :)
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It’s application season for summer internships! @TXSTHistory grad students Emma Beard, Isabel Gonzalez, and Cortney Smith shared their tips at yesterdays Public History Internship Info Session
@TXSTHistory graduate students and I helped organize a new non-lending library at the Calaboose African American History Museum today 📚 @TheCalabooseSM
Dr. @rubyoram, @TXSTHistory assistant professor, is working to preserve the Chicago Vocational High School, a historic but underutilized high school in Chicago's Avalon Park neighborhood, by getting it added to the National Register of Historic Places. https://t.co/eawoflAx82
Been working on this one for a while -
"CVS is more than another Art Deco landmark. CVS is a monument of social history that represents the experiences of local students, teachers, and families.”
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As part of their graduate seminar on local and community history, #TXST graduate students Amber Hullum and Railey Tassin shined a new light on the restaurant that became a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community in the 1950s.
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My students from HIST 3368A (Intro to Public History) shared their research on the Hayden Springs Freedom Colony in Manor, TX for the Travis County Historical Commission today :) @TXSTHistory
Lucy Flower Tech is featured by @NatlParkService for Women's History Month. As of 2020, 388 sites in Chicago are listed on the National Register. Only 6 are named after women https://t.co/cZA1zFgnww
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A Girl Can Do is available for preorder! Hear from me and nine other scholars on how we highlight marginalized experiences of girlhood through public history. https://t.co/wj9Ms2MJQo
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TXST public history graduate students helped clean up the historic Dunbar neighborhood this morning for the inaugural Harvey Miller Day of Service @DunbarHeritage@TXSTHistory@JustinMRandolph