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The DHPSNY Antiracism Programming in 2024 is structured around both the AASLH Making History at 250 Field Guide and the New York State 250th Field Guide. Our guiding question for 2024 is: How do we make our collecting organizations interdisciplinary and representative of the realities of our many New York histories?
This program invites participants to consider their organizations' collections, exhibits, programs, and institutional planning from a hyper local perspective, including stories from their city, village, town, hamlet and/or county alongside the perspectives of contemporary and 21st century Indigenous communities. The May program is designed for anyone who works in or volunteers for a library, archive, museum, historical society, or history/culture site in New York State.
The DHPSNY Antiracism Programming in 2024 is structured around both the AASLH Making History at 250 Field Guide and the New York State 250th Field Guide. Our guiding question for 2024 is: How do we make our collecting organizations interdisciplinary and representative of the realities of our many New York histories?
This program invites participants to consider what it takes to pursue untold stories of everyday experiences. This program also addresses strategies to research undertold, ignored and poorly documented histories, and how we can fill in the gaps of our communities’ stories. The July program is designed for anyone who works in or volunteers for a library, archive, museum, historical society, or history/culture site in New York State.
The DHPSNY Antiracism Programming in 2024 is structured around both the AASLH Making History at 250 Field Guide and the New York State 250th Field Guide. Our guiding question for 2024 is: How do we make our collecting organizations interdisciplinary and representative of the realities of our many New York histories?
This program invites participants to grapple with what it means to provide relevant content, exhibits, programs, and practices as we prepare to commemorate the 250th. Specifically, this program invites participants to understand their material culture and documents in new ways that allow us to evolve our interpretations and understanding of our communities’ histories, read sources against the grain, grapple with how our sources have been read differently in different eras. The September program is designed for anyone who works in or volunteers for a library, archive, museum, historical society, or history/culture site in New York State.
The DHPSNY Antiracism Programming in 2024 is structured around both the AASLH Making History at 250 Field Guide and the New York State 250th Field Guide. Our guiding question for 2024 is: How do we make our collecting organizations interdisciplinary and representative of the realities of our many New York histories?
New York State is the home to much of the nation’s historical memory about issues and topics we still discuss and debate today, including immigration, LGBTQ+ rights and safety, segregation, incarceration, human rights, and Indigenous genocide, among other things. This program invites participants to identify revolutionary moments in our own local histories and experiences that build on topics and issues relevant to our collective past and our contemporary experiences. The September program is designed for anyone who works in or volunteers for a library, archive, museum, historical society, or history/culture site in New York State.