Browsing by Subject "public history"

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    “Ignorance is not Innocence”: The Social Health Association of Indiana and Adolescent Sex Education, 1907-2007
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Potter, Angela Bowen; Scarpino, Philip V.
    “Ignorance is not innocence,” thundered John Hurty Secretary of the Indiana Board of Health in 1913 attempting to persuade his colleagues that only “sex knowledge” could prevent the problem of adolescent venereal disease. Throughout the twentieth century, Hurty and other Indiana reformers took the lead in national efforts to raise public awareness of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases as part of larger debates on how to educate adolescents on the dangers of sexual activity prior to marriage This project, funded in part by the IUPUI Solution Center and Social Health Association of Indiana (SHA), seeks to use various public history methodologies to illustrate the important role Indiana played in the history of adolescent sexuality education. The history of the Social Health Association of Indiana (SHA) reflects changes not only in the sexuality education movement, but also in the broader context of adolescent sexuality, educational reform and public health movements. This project is an example of the IUPUI’s Public History Master’s program training that blends theory and hands-on experience specific to public history, often in partnership with community organizations. Today, the SHA continues their 100 year tradition of “foster successful lives by empowering youth to make responsible choices and adopt healthy behaviors.”
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    Mapping History: Orienting Museum Visitors across Time and Space
    (ACM, 2018-08) Ress, S.; Cafaro, F.; Bora, D.; Prasad, D.; Soundarajan, D.; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    At historic open-air museums, many of the “objects” under investigation are buildings and landscapes that could tell multiple, overlapping narratives: i.e., they were built/manipulated over the course of years by different peoples and groups who used them for varying purposes. In this article, we address this challenge by proposing the use of interactive maps to orient visitors in time, space, and both time and space. We conducted a series of collaborative-design workshops to elicit recommendations. From the analysis of the transcripts, we identified four design elements and two functionalities that could be used for these purposes. We then conducted a study at an open-air museum to compare the extent to which these design elements and functionalities (and a prototype that integrates them) allow visitors to orient themselves in time and space, and to notice change over time.
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    “Putting History to Work in the World”: the National Council on Public History
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Dichtl, John; Sacco, Nicholas
    For twenty-four years the National Council on Public History (NCPH) has been based in the Department of History as an external agency of IUPUI. A non-profit scholarly and professional group, with members across North America and in several other countries, NCPH serves public historians and promotes the burgeoning field of public history—which itself is an important form of civic engagement and translational research. What is public history? It describes the many and diverse ways in which history is put to work in the world. In this sense, it is history that is applied to real-world issues. While the theory and methodology of public history remain firmly in the discipline of history, and all good public history rests on sound scholarship, public historians routinely engage in collaborative work, conceptualize projects with a non-scholarly audience in mind, and typically frame their questions and evidence with the participation of these audiences. Some have shorthanded the definition of public history as “history outside of the classroom,” but increasingly the field or profession of public history moves back and forth between classrooms and the world beyond, involving historical consultants, museum professionals, government historians, archivists, oral historians, cultural resource managers, curators, film and media producers, historical interpreters, historic preservationists, policy advisers, local historians, and community activists, among many other job descriptions. The national executive office of NCPH collaborates with the Department of History’s Public History Program, which is one of the best and oldest of the 138 MA programs in the United States. A half-time graduate student intern from the IUPUI Public History Program provides crucial assistance, and the executive director of NCPH, a faculty member, works with the Department’s Public History Program director and co-director on a range of projects. Recently these have included or will include chairing the 600-person NCPH conference in Nashville in 2016 and hosting it in Indianapolis in 2017, creating Careers in History symposia for undergraduates, and a phone app project providing historical tours of Indianapolis created with community partners and local public history institutions. The latter will become a statewide effort in conjunction with the Indiana’s 2016 Bicentennial. NCPH helped launch a sister group, the International Federation for Public History, publishes the flagship peer-reviewed journal in the field, The Public Historian, issues best practice documents, organized the jointly produced “Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian” report, maintains numerous digital and other venues for scholarly communication, recognizes cutting edge work with its annual awards program, and fosters many other ways of making the past useful in the present and to encouraging collaboration between historians and their public.
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    Time Travelers: Mapping Museum Visitors across Time and Space
    (ACM, 2016-09) Cafaro, Francesco; Ress, Stella A.; Department of Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    Open-air museums may encompass structures, buildings, sites, and other types of objects and artifacts that span across space and, because these objects were built and/or used during multiple periods of significance, across time. The multiplicity of storylines can confuse visitors. Thus, this paper introduces Somewhere in Time, a novel installation that integrates a combination of technologies with historic content that allows users to explore both time and space across museum structures/sites. We describe our work conceptualizing and designing a personalized, interactive map (Time Travelers) that allows visitors to explore complex narratives across both time and space.