Using Public History to Study Modern Feminism

Abstract

The participants for this roundtable are all working on the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digital humanities project, “Sharing Stories from 1977: Putting the National Women’s Conference on the Map.” Our work is rooted in public history methodologies and theory: shared authority, public-facing work, and collaborative scholarship that is generated as much for a public audience as an academic one. We hope that our work will inspire other scholars to undertake public history in the digital space and will also showcase how this approach can revolutionize the study of more traditional topics like women’s history and political history.