We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.
Banquet Address, Mississippi Historical Society February, 2007 In February, 2007, the Mississippi Historical Society invited me to be their annual banquet speaker. To me this was significant, because the society had played no role in 1974, when the State Textbook Board had rejected our book, Mississippi: Conflict and Change. As a result, for an entire …
Confederate General Albert Pike after his toppling in downtown D.C. General Problems in Public History Put most broadly, the famous British writer George Orwell put his finger on the chief problem with public history: “Who controls the present controls the past.” Typically the people on top, the “leaders of the community,” have the time, the …