The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MOMS) was recently awarded a grant to engage underserved, rural youth in using technology to capture local stories related to the MOMS’ Journey Stories exhibit. As part of the grant, I will join another scholar as we conduct workshops in oral history methods for teachers, students and museum staff…
Reconstructing a Community’s Past as a Consulting Public Historian
For most of 2011, I’ve been doing fieldwork to document the public history of Havre de Grace around the time the British burned the town in May 1813. To aid in understanding this era, I just completed a study of the population and demographic characteristics of the community in the first third of the 19th…
Saving Voices of the Past – A Workshop on Documenting Memories and Stories With Oral History at Havre de Grace, Dec. 6
To help residents of Havre de Grace and Harford County preserve eyewitness accounts of the past, I am doing an oral history workshop at the town library on Dec 6th, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. The program presents the methods for gathering and preserving history through interviews with people by recording their memories and stories. It…
Two New Programs on the War of 1812 as Part of the 200th Anniversary Speakers Bureau Series
In conjunction with the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, the Maryland Humanities Council is offering a special speakers bureau series focusing on that conflict. I am pleased to be selected to serve as one of the presenting scholars. Here are the descriptions of my two programs: Spread the News: The War of 1812 on the…