Program Structure and Discussion Leaders

The 2019 Public History Institute program will include three types of sessions.

I. Plenary Discussions of the core issues will be introduced by a series of conveners, and participants will be expected to join in an assessment of how these issues impinge upon and influence the work they are doing. Among the conveners are:

David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University

Christy Coleman, President and CEO, American Civil War Museum, Richmond

Lynda B. Kaplan, Principal and Media Director, American History Workshop, Brooklyn

Richard Rabinowitz, President, American History Workshop, Brooklyn

Jessica Sack, Senior Associate Curator of Public Education, Yale University Art Gallery

Participants will be sent a packet of reading materials in preparation for these conversations, and will be expected to be familiar with the readings.

II. Case Study Sessions: Participants will be asked to outline the creative and cultural challenges of a specific project which they are currently planning or implementing. Participants should be prepared to make a 15-minute presentation of their project, including up to ten images of the relevant site(s), research resources, and/or key artifacts.

III. Open Sessions: Participants will be encouraged to organize discussions on other topics, or to explore resources at Yale and New Haven, including the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Sterling Memorial Library and Manuscripts and Archives Collection, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, the New Haven Museum, and memorials on campus and throughout the city.