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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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Thinking like a community: Beyond shared authority

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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“Don’t frack our history!” Using the past for environmental activism in...

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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