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3/28 Reading: Thomas Cauvin, Public History: A Textbook of Practice / Historians as Consultants and Advisors

  3/28 Reading:  Thomas Cauvin, Public History: A Textbook of Practice /  Historians as Consultants and Advisors Thomas Cauvin’s Public History: A Textbook of Practice ;  Chapter 12: Civic Engagement and Social Justice   Citation :  Cauvin, Thomas. Public history: A textbook of practice . New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.  Chapter 12,“Civic Engagement and Social Justice: Historians as Activists,” of Thomas Cauvin’s Public History: A Textbook of Practice (2016) contains four subsections. The four subsections are titled as follows: “From Civic Engagement to Social Justice”; “Public History as a Source of Social Empowerment for Underrepresented Groups”; “Public Historians and Everyday Suffering”; and “History for Peace: Human Rights, Apologies, and Reconciliation.” In this blog post I will discuss themes and important pieces from each subjection of this chapter, in conjunction with thinking about Eatonville’s Historic Hungerford...
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The Public Historian: Call for Papers -- Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites

  3/7: The Public Historian: Call for Papers -- Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites I. Greenwood Cemetery, City of Orlando – Walking Tour With taking a look at the Greenwood Cemetery application for state funding (considered to only be applicable for heritage education and historical marker project types only according to the application), it made me think about why this could not be included in federal funding as well. It is very interesting how these types of projects could only be funded by the state– this emphasizes how each and every state could have their own standards, regulations, and goals that they want to achieve that could be different from federal aims– possibly varying from state to state. When selecting a project type, they chose a Heritage Education Project. We now know that this is funded by the Florida Department of State Small Matching Historic Preservation Grant with $50,000.   From reading the description of a Heritage Education Project, I beli...
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1/18: Historic Eatonville and the Fight to Preserve "America's First Incorporated Black Town" in the 21st Century

1/18: Eatonville, Florida   Eatonville, Florida as a model of the late 19th/early 20th century black town-building and a case study in the late 20th/early 21st century historic preservation versus gentrification...  I. What circumstances led to the establishment of Eatonville as an all-black subdivision of Maitland and late, and an independent, self-governing black township?      Eatonville represented a new South. A vibrant culture that embraces its culture and values that its founders held close. Eatonville rose a the first self-governing all-black municipalities in its 1887 incorporation as a direct result of the experience of the founders. As the CBS video mentioned, it was remarkable that Eatonville was created after the end of the Civil War in 1887 when formerly enslaved African Americans moved to Central Florida to work. Eatonville was a product of three men coming together, acquiring plot of land making afford houses. I believe this is a very point and ...
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