Resources for Further Exploration

To keep things manageable, we have limited ourselves to seven resources per category.  We have also omitted journal articles that are beyond the paywall.  If you want additional resources, we can always expand.  If you have suggestions we should add to this page, please email me at “info [at] asianamericanmusic [dot] org.”  You can also tag or DM us on our Facebook or Twitter account.

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Here are the slides for our presentation.  If you have any question, please contact us (see the paragraph at the top of this page).

Shared Authority: Theory, Opportunities, Risks and Limits

Open Access

• Katherine T. Corbett and Howard S. Dick Miller, “A Shared Inquiry into Shared Inquiry.” The Public Historian 28.1 (2006): 15-38.
• Steven Lubar, “Seven Rules for Public Humanists.” On Public Humanities, June 5, 2014.
• Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum. Museum 2.0, 2010.
• Elizabethada Wright (Ed.), “The Choices We Make: Public Historians’ Role in the Commemorations of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.” National Council for Public History, 2011.

Easy-to-Acquire Books

• Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene and Laura Kooski (Eds.), Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World. Philadelphia: The Pew Center for Arts & Hertitage, 2011.
• David W. Blight, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
• Michael Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

Relevance

Open Access

• Benjamin Filene, “Passionate Histories: ‘Outsider’ History-Makers and What They Teach Us.” The Public Historian 34.1 (2012): 11-33.
• Steven Lubar, “Engaging with Nießer and Tomann’s Engaged History.” The Public Historian 40.4 (2018): 33-36.
• Laura Burd Schiavo, “White People Like Hiking: Some Implications of NPS Narratives of Relevance and Diversity.” The Public Historian 38.4 (2016): 206-235.
• Nina Simon, The Art of Relevance. Museum 2.0, 2016.

Easy-to-Acquire Books

• Hilda Kean and Paul Martin. The Public History Reader. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Roy Rosenzweig. Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
• Cathy Stanton. The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia’s Content Gender Gap
• Wiki Women in Red
• Basic Editing Techniques
• Wiki Edu (organization that will help you create Wikipedia assignments in your courses)
• Video showing what Wiki Edu does

Projects and Resources that We Think Are Really Good

• Of/By/For All
• Tenement Museum Tours
• The History Relevance Toolkit
• The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook
• (UK) National Museum Directors’ Conference, Museums and Galleries: Creative Engagement
• Nick Sacco, “Meeting people where they are: Reinterpreting Freeman Tilden”