Telling Our Own Stories—Black/Indigenous Louisiana in the 21st Century

AHA Session 73
Friday, January 7, 2022: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom C (Sheraton New Orleans, 5th Floor)
Chair:
Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
Panel:
Cierra Chenier, NOIR 'N NOLA
Mona Lisa Saloy, Dillard University
Monique Verdin, filmmaker and Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange

Session Abstract

During the 2022 annual AHA meeting, several Presidential Sessions will focus on “Modes of Historical Story-Telling.” These informal conversations among participants will explore both the stories our sources tell us and the way we convey those stories to our various audiences. Historians reach multiple constituencies not only by publishing scholarly books and articles, but also by teaching, launching webinars, curating museum exhibits, guiding tours of historical sites, blogging, writing op-eds, consulting for and making historical documentary films, developing virtual-reality projects, appearing on TV and radio, writing textbooks, composing and singing songs, serving on public historical (and renaming) commissions, collecting archival materials and historical artifacts, writing and illustrating works for specialized audiences such as children and young adults, and developing and contributing to online public-history sites, among other efforts. Individual participants should introduce themselves by talking briefly about some of the ways they transform their research findings into material geared toward specific groups. These sessions are only 90 minutes long, and the moderator should allow some time for discussion among the participants as well as questions from the audience. Taken together, these sessions should remind us of the vibrancy and far reach of the historical discipline/profession today.
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