An alternative space for public history: AmeriCorps
Beloved community activist Bob Moses once asked a family living in the Mississippi Delta, “How do you build and organize a community?” He was answered, “By throwing a ball into your neighbor’s yard;...
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I recently attended an event in Boston’s South End neighborhood called “Sharing our Stories: The Power of Place,” a sensational evening sponsored by the Tenants Development Corporation, Inc. and the...
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Natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania, near the author’s home “I am from a small agrarian town in northeastern Pennsylvania – just south of Binghamton, New York and north of Scranton,...
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