Democratizing the American History Textbook
Amplified Initiative
The OAH panel “Democratizing the American History Textbook: Mass Collaboration and The American Yawp” describes a year-long collaboration of more than 350 historians to produce The American Yawp, a free and online, open-source American history Textbook.
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Storytelling and African-American Women’s Biography
Amplified Initiative
This panel compares the possibilities & pitfalls of telling black women’s stories in the traditional form of biography versus film as well as when the subjects present challenges to linear storytelling.
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Feeling Is Believing
Amplified Initiative
The Amplified Initiative is a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This project from the Organization of American Historians aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference.
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Beyond the Monograph, Beyond the Margins
Amplified Initiative
This is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference.
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Arming Citizens
Amplified Initiative
This is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). The project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference.
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Sexuality and Oral History
Amplified Initiative
This is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This panel, like the others in our series, was part of the Organization of American Historians April 2018 conference.
info_outlineThis is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). The project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience.
This is an edited recording of the panel “Arming Citizens: Public Historians and Civic Engagement.” Public historians are uniquely positioned to effect change in today’s social confusion. Through public programming, exhibitions, and the collecting and making available of the works and words of often marginalized people; we can foster environments of greater understanding-- and societal change. A cross-generational, cross-racial panel discusses ways history professionals should construct history with others.
Participants were: Heather Huyck, the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites; Noelle Trent, The National Civil Rights Museum; and Erin Devlin, the University of Mary Washington.
You can listen to the full version of this panel, as well as other presentations that didn’t make into the podcast, at oah.pathwright.com.