Martha Swan,Mary Rizzo
Martha Swan
Nonprofit human rights organization John Brown Lives! uses local and regional history as a tool to raise contemporary questions around racial injustice, inspired by the work of controversial abolitionist leader John Brown. In this interview...
"Ask a slave" and interpreting race on public history's front line: interview with Azie Mira Dungey [0.03%]
“问一个奴隶”:与Azie Mira Dungey对话,在公共历史的一线诠释种族问题
Azie Mira Dungey,Amy M Tyson
Azie Mira Dungey
In this interview, Azie Mira Dungey (creator of the web series, "Ask a Slave") and Amy M. Tyson (Associate Professor of History at DePaul University and author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines) discus...
Before 1979: African American coachmen, visibility, and representation at Colonial Williamsburg [0.03%]
1979年之前:殖民地威廉斯堡的非裔美国马车夫及其能见度与形象问题
Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Before the living history museum of Colonial Williamsburg started its concerted interpretation of slavery in 1979, the African American coachmen were already representing the past and implicating black history and slavery in this restored e...
Relies of reconciliation: the Confederate Museum and Civil War memory in the New South [0.03%]
和解的遗迹:南方联盟博物馆与美国内战记忆
Reiko Hillyer
Reiko Hillyer
This article examines the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (CMLS), an organization of elite white women in Richmond, Virginia who founded the Confederate Museum in the 1890s. Faced with the plunder of Civil War relics and cultural homo...
"Showplace of the Cherokee Nation": race and the making of a southern house museum [0.03%]
“切罗基族人的展示场所”:种族与南部宅第博物馆的形成
Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles
This article traces the restoration history of the Chief Vann House State Historic Site, a former Cherokee plantation owned and operated by the state of Georgia. The article explores the make-up of the restoration community in the 1950s and...
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
The subject of this essay is the judicial context of bodies from mass graves. I shall discuss topics that exemplify the power that flows from being able to display bodies to courts. By contrast, and where there are no bodies to show, a lazy...
Where are the stories? [0.03%]
故事去了哪里?
Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering
The lost histories behind museum holdings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral remains provide cautionary tales as to what happens when a society neglects, forgets, or attempts to conceal traumatic episodes in its history. As ...
Bodily matters above and below ground: the treatment of American remains from the Korean War [0.03%]
地上地下皆关涉——美国如何处理朝鲜战争阵亡将士遗骸问题
Judith Keene
Judith Keene
Throughout most of the twentieth century, depending on the capabilities of the military mortuary services and the time limits set by government, the bodies of the American fallen in foreign wars have been repatriated home to their families....
Adrian Vickers
Adrian Vickers
Controversies about the 1965-66 killings of communists in Indonesia have revolved around questions of "how many?" and "who was responsible?" While there is general agreement that at least 500,000 people were killed, public discourse in Indo...
From state terrorism to state errorism: post-Pinochet Chile's long search for truth and justice [0.03%]
从国家恐怖主义到国家错误主义:后皮诺切特智利漫长的寻真相与正义之路
Marivic Wyndham,Peter Read
Marivic Wyndham
Patio 29 lies in the northern sector of Santiago's General Cemetery. To the naked eye, it is a grim unweeded field of some twelve hundred rusted tin crosses. But to the families of the 1,197 detained-disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's br...