Bridging Histories Through Intercultural Archiving
Much of Indigenous peoples’ knowledge held in archives has been collected through extractive colonial processes without Tribal consent.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-2/mukurtu-records-indigenous-archives/
Telling LGBTQ+ Public History in a Regressive Age
This article recounts the experience of two curators whose exhibit on Kansas City’s LGBTQ history was removed by the governor.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/lgbtq-public-history/
Visualizing Abolition: Creating a History of Hope
What would it mean to think about the problem of incarceration, not from the view of specialists but from the view of artists?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/visualizing-abolition/
“Never Again is Now:” Japanese American Protest at Fort Sill
Japanese Americans invoked their own experiences of incarceration at Fort Sill to highlight the history of racism, colonialism, and trauma.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/fort-still-activism/
The Smithsonian’s Decision to Exhibit the ‘Enola Gay’
What harbingers of the future of public history in the US resided in the mid-1990s fight over the meaning of the Enola Gay?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/smithsonian-enola-gay/
The Smithsonian’s Decision to Exhibit the ‘Enola Gay’
What harbingers of the future of public history in the US resided in the mid-1990s fight over the meaning of the Enola Gay?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/smithsonian-enola-gay/
The New Old Culture Wars
How can public history be educational, impactful, and transformative in the United States’ new era of culture wars?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/new-old-culture-wars/
The New Old Culture Wars
How can public history be educational, impactful, and transformative in the United States’ new era of culture wars?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-7/new-old-culture-wars/
Die Kopräsenz des Erlebens, Erinnerns, Erzählens
Die Terroranschläge des 11. September 2001 stellen die wohl radikalste Zeitenwende der jüngeren Globalgeschichte dar – eine Epochenschwelle, die (in Anlehnung an das in den Geschichtswissenschaften von 1789 bis 1914 reichende „lange 19. Jahrhundert“) das zweite Jahrtausend gewissermaßen erst 620 Tage später eröffnet.
Damit schien sich allerdings auch Francis Fukuyamas These vom „Ende der Geschichte“[1] nicht zu erfüllen und vielmehr Samuel Huntingtons ausgerufener „Clash“ der Kulturen[2] anzudeuten: Wohl kaum ein anderes Ereignis der Moderne hat den „Westen“ so sehr selbst konstruiert und vom „Rest“ abgegrenzt, wie die Dichotomisierung von Freiheit gegen Fundamentalismus, Zivilisation gegen Barbarei. Denn nahezu unmittelbar als „eine Kriegserklärung gegen die gesamte zivilisierte Welt“[3] verstanden, war auch die Antwort darauf, 60 Jahre nach Pearl Harbor, schnell klar: „When America responded to these attacks, it would be deliberate, forceful, and effective.“[4]
Doch die Reaktionen auf diese Terroranschläge gehen weit über die politischen und militärischen Machtzentralen des Westens hinaus und umfassen neben philosophischen Deutungen (von Jean Baudrillard bis Slavoj Žižek) unzählige künstlerische Interventionen, die sich in Lyrik und Roman, Film und Comic, Kunst und Performance mit jenem Dienstag im September 2001 auseinandersetzen, mit dem kaum vorstellbaren Schrecken des Ereignisses und den drastischen Bildern, die daraus hervorgingen.
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The 50th Anniversary of the Koza Uprising
Abstract: Three authors address the potential for the emergence of transnational audiences for public history. In December 2020, the Okinawa Memories Initiative hosted an online event commemorating the 50th anniversary... Read More ›
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