Digitization, Primary Sources, Ancient Artifacts: Public History as Pedagogy in a Technology Age

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

Public History has come of age. Over the past thirty years it has become an important tool for engaging students. Advances in technology has provided educators, researchers, students and scholars with the ability to access historical actors and historical sites on their personal devices. However, public history still works best through visits to repositories to explore institutional collections, to read personal papers and primary sources, and to examine rare text found in public libraries and private holdings. It can be incorporated in primary and secondary educational levels. The panel presentations look at public history in a digital age, at traditional historical sites and in a global collaborative effort of restoration.
 

Sub Unit

• 102nd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College

Individual Presentations

• Public History as Pedagogy: Engaging Learners Using Public History and Historical Sites - Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College

• Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project - Rhonda Jones, Independent Scholar

• Black Collectors and Keepers of Tradition: - Gay L. Byron, Howard University - School of Divinity

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .