The students and alumni of UMass Amherst Public History are constantly writing and publishing on up-to-date topics in a variety of different formats. Below are links to selected articles, with more to be added as their exciting work continues!
Public History students are also regular contributors to the UMass History Department Blog, past@present. Check it out!
Alumni, Richard Anderson published an article titled, "Taking Labor History Public: An Overview of the Field" in a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (Mar 2020).
Alumni Shakti Castro wrote about her work in harm prevention for NCPH and redefining the field of public history: What We Mean when We Say "The Field"
Alumni Rebekkah Rubin is an accomplished freelance writer. Check out her website at https://rebekkahrubin.com/ and some of her work:
- The Woman Who Tried to Take Down Darwin - for Smithsonian Magazine
- The Ugly History of American Immigration - for The Week
- Confederate Statues are History - So is Taking Them Down - for Electric Literature
- Memorializing Tamir Rice with Pokemon Go - for Belt Magazine
Alumni Amy Halliday, Chel Miller, and Julie Peterson wrote an article, "What are Women's Prisons for?" on women's prisons for the journal Museums & Social Issues during a partnership with the Humanities Action Lab. During their time at UMass, they researched woman's prisons to help create the traveling HAL exhibit State of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories.
Alumni Margo Shea is a professor at Salem State University and keeps a website at http://www.theflickeringlamp.org/ that records all kind of public history thoughts and initatives, including an article about public historians as "nice": Public Historians are Something More than Nice