Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Social Justice and Public History: The Networks, Goals, and Practices That Shaped Our Noble Dream | Denise D. Meringolo
Raising Consciousness or Raising Hell: New Narratives for Oral History
Allan Nevins Is Not My Grandfather: The Roots of Radical Oral History Practice in the United States | Daniel R. Kerr
Helen Matthews Lewis: Oral History and Social Change in Appalachia | Judith Jennings
“Recalling Our Bitter Experiences”: Consciousness Raising, Feminism, and Women’s Oral History | Anne M. Valk
Pushing Boundaries Onstage: Culture Clash, Oral History Theater, and the Influence of El Teatro Campesino | Kristen Ana La Follette
What Are the Roots of Your Radical Oral History Practice? | Shane Bernardo, Maria E. Cotera, Fernanda Espinosa, and Amy Starecheski
“We’re All Bozos on This Bus”: An Oral History with Jeremy Brecher | Daniel R. Kerr
Place-Based Pedagogies: Origins of Public History Education
The People’s Camp: The Progressive Pedagogy of Camp Woodland | Rachel Donaldson
Carter G. Woodson: A Century of Making Black Lives Matter | Burnis Morris
Louis C. Jones and the Cooperstown Model: Working at the Nexus of Public Folklore and Public History | William S. Walker
The American Civilization Institute of Morristown: Education and Inclusive Community Building | Denise D. Meringolo
Radical Futures: Teaching Public History as Social Justice | Elizabeth Belanger
Radical Is a Process: Public History Pedagogy in Urban Universities | Rebecca Amato, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Dipti Desai, Denise D. Meringolo, and Mary Rizzo
Sites of Discord and Dialogue: Museums in Progress
Imperfectly Progressive: The Social Mission of Museums in the 1930s | Clarissa J. Ceglio
What to Do with Heritage: The Museum of Jewish Ceremonial Objects, 1931–43 | Laura Schiavo
Exhibiting Ourselves: The Making of a Community Museum in a National Institution | Michèle Gates Moresi
Crossing the Gentrification Frontier: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Blind Spots of Social History | Rebecca Amato
Recollections on Interpreting Slave Life and Falling into Your Purpose | Nicole A. Moore
Public History From the Ground Up: Cultural Heritage as Community Building
Unintentional Public Historians: Collective Memory and Identity Production in the American Indian and LGBTQ Liberation Movements | Lara Kelland
Reflections on Black Public History: Past, Present, Future | Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
What Happens Next? Institutionalizing Grassroots Success in Selma, Alabama | Abigail Gautreau
Getting to the Heart of Preservation: The Place of Grassroots Efforts in the Contemporary Preservation Movement | Kristen Baldwin Deathridge
Philadelphia’s Original Social Justice Warriors: The Little Big Story of Germantown and the Germantown Mennonites | Craig Stutman
Conclusion: The Uneasy Relationship between Civic Engagement and Social Justice | Denise D. Meringolo
Further Reading
Contributor Biographies