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Public History Colloquium

Prof. Susan Burch will speak about her latest book, which has recently received the National Women’s Studies Association Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, and the Disability History Association’s Outstanding Book of 2022, Committed: Native Families, Institutionalization, and Remembering (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) The book centers on peoples’ lived experiences inside and outside the Canton Asylum, […]

Public History colloquium–Okinawa Memories Initiative

Director Alan Christy and lead student interns will speak about the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI), a student-led public history and community-engaged research project that employs methodologies of experiential learning and community service to explore Okinawan life, society, and environment after the Battle of Okinawa. They will provide insights to the development of this ongoing public historical process, highlighting […]