Class	13775 AMST 3221 - 001 (SEM) Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction
Instructor	Lisa Goff
Meetings	Lisa Goff Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm New Cabell Hall 032
Other SIS Info	Enrollment: (Show Graph) 12 students (capacity 16) Status: Open, Waitlist Available When Full Units: 3 Meeting Dates: 08/24/2021 - 12/07/2021 Class Components: Seminar Required Enrollment Requirements: None Requirement Designation: HS Class Attributes: ASUD-AIP,ASUD-HP,CORE-CRITTHINK,CORE-ORALCOMM,CORE-RESEARCH,CORE-WRITTEN Grading: Graded SIS Description: "Public history" is delivered to a non-academic audience, often at historic sites, museums, archives, and on digital platforms. Some films, podcasts, fiction, and poetry might also be considered public history. This course uses all of those formats to investigate how the history of slavery and Reconstruction are presented to the public. Collaboration with local community groups and field trips to historic sites are key components of this class.
Class Website	https://hoph-2020-f-oss.hub.arcgis.com/
Class Subtitle	Hands-On Public History
Description	THIS CLASS FULFILLS THREE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AMST MAJOR: TRANSNATIONAL/REGIONAL, RACE/ETHNICITY, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. This year-long class is a part of a 3-year collaboration with local community groups to conduct historical research into African American history in central Virginia. Examples of past projects here: https://hoph-2020-f-oss.hub.arcgis.com/. Students will conduct fieldwork near Charlottesville, and will investigate past and current examples of the public history of slavery and Reconstruction at sites like Monticello and Montpelier, as well as lesser known sites. We will work together with community organizations and Black churches to geolocate undocumented sites of African American history, including gravesites; and create digital Story Maps that seek to unearth the hidden histories of enslaved and free African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries—and the legacies of those histories today. ** Please note that students are strongly encouraged to take the class in both the fall and spring semesters. ** WHAT IS PUBLIC HISTORY? Public history is history that is delivered to a non-academic audience, often at historic sites, museums, archives, and on digital platforms. Some films, podcasts, fiction, and poetry might also be considered public history. This course will use all of those formats to investigate how the history of slavery in central Virginia is presented to the public. We will critique how historic sites in the Charlottesville area, including the university, interpret this history, and identify the political and social impacts of these interpretations. Field trips to local and regional historic sites will be a key (and hopefully enjoyable) component of this class. We'll visit Montpelier and Monticello, for example, as well as Richmond, where we'll see Kehinde Wiley's powerful new statue, Rumors of War. But critique is not the only, or even the most important goal of our class. Students will collaborate with local community groups, WTJU, and Scholars Lab to produce podcasts and digital maps that fill in some of the gaps in the public history of slavery and its legacies in Charlottesville and surrounding counties--contributing, in some small way, to a more just and comprehensive public history. PLEASE NOTE: Class participation will play a very large role in student assessment, as will the final project and all the assignments leading up to it. Several (2-3) field trips will be scheduled on weekends; these are all mandatory. Dates will be announced at the first class meeting.
Syllabus
Comments	MANDATORY FIELD TRIPS AND ATTENDANCE POLICY. MAKE SURE YOU CAN GO TO ALL THREE BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR CLASS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XFOT8EL08s0_zglAOWmrWQFT43IIXl5qSPj_JBq3WFc/edit. This is a year-long course through the college's Civic and Community Engagement Program. You have the option of taking it both fall and spring semesters.
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