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This project examines the influence of the Institutions of Higher Learning in the monuments dedicated to the Lost and Won Cause present on Mississippi’s public college campuses. Monuments and memorials stand as representations of public history, and the IHL’s interpretations of …
Red Clay State Historic Park preserves and commemorates the last capital of the Cherokee Nation prior to removal, the Red Clay Council Ground. Since the forced removal, the land has ever since been contested ground. Whites quickly acquired it and turned what had been a Native Am…
This thesis is a hybrid public history project that includes a critical paper and a website. Both sections of the thesis analyze Black women’s literary work in the early twentieth century. The main historical actors discussed within the text are Elise Johnson McDougald, Jessie R…
The Vietnam War has largely been discussed in public history through the means of monuments. A war that was greatly detested by many Americans caused many of the historical monuments to serve as sites of healing. While this thesis acknowledges that these monuments serve as power…
The East Side community is one of the last predominantly Black and working-class neighborhoods in the city of Charleston. Established in 1769, the East Side served as a space of relative safety and privacy for free and enslaved Black Charlestonians. Threatened by Black and worki…
This research examines three popular ghost stories/legends of New Orleans that deal with issues of race. Madame Lalaurie, Julie, and Marie Laveau are popular subjects that are often sensationalized and removed from their proper historical context while treating legend as fact. T…
This thesis is an exploration of queer domesticity, queer possibility and intuition in historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley M…
Historic open data can be an asset to community gardens in land use disputes, the preservation and sharing of cultural traditions, and adaptation to climate change. Yet scholarship has not yet provided an accessible guide to the many issues of labor and technology involved in pr…
This is a public history study of statues and monuments, and the stories they commemorate. “Teedyuscung, a Man, a Statue” examines, specifically, Native American statue and monument commemorations. I begin with the Tedyuscung Statue in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley. In exami…
This thesis project was based on thirty-five focused interviews with narrators between March and June 2020 about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated shutdowns. Analysis of these interviews revealed that the story of the early pandemic is not just about a phys…
Disability in America addresses the lack of the history of disabled Americans in museums in the United States and how this problem can be solved. Much of the history of the disabled in the United States is ignored by public history institutions, a concerning problem when the dis…
The author selected this public history project after applying for a grant from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. The society initially sought proposals in March 2020 to fund a community project that would introduce Emerson to a non-academic audience. The author’s research culmin…
German influence upon the culture and physical landscape of central Texas is both well documented and much celebrated. However, despite the multiple studies which explore the social and cultural contributions of the thousands of German immigrants who populated the region during …
This project expands upon the historical work done in the master’s thesis “The Carolina Gay Association, The Southeastern Gay Conferences, and Gay Liberation in the 1970s South,” and builds on its work through an examination of public history’s impact for LGBTQ+ southerners. The…
Surveying the most influential U.S. museums and World’s Fairs at the turn of the twentieth century, this study traces the rise and professionalization of museum anthropology during the period now referred to as the Golden Age of American Anthropology, 1875-1925. Specifically, th…
This research examines the historic narratives of the Hancock House Historic Site, The Jennie Wade House Museum, and the Shriver House Museum, analyzing the historical accuracy of each. Each site has used historic human bloodstains and other elements of material culture, authent…
Today, the outdoor landscapes of Durham's three state historic sites resemble each other closely. Historic Stagville, Bennett Place, and Duke Homestead all have mown grass lawns, large stands of trees, and nature trails. However, none of these sites would have looked this way du…
This thesis is a synthesis of two separate research projects conducted in the summer of 2018 and the spring of 2020. The first project was conducted in conjunction with the Fort Ticonderoga Association as a means of exploring the memory and legacy of a historic military landmark…