<h2>CRITICAL ESSAYS<br> & THOUGHTS ON LOCAL HISTORY </h2> December 19, 2023 <h1>Top 5 Things Local Historians Are Getting Wrong</h1> <h2>In Beaver County, Pennsylvania & Beyond</h2> <p style=”text-align: left;”>We’ve identified a short list of issues with doing local history, from trivia peddling, nostalgia pimping, permitting undocumented history, fixated obsessions with the past, and aversions to digital …
Deconstructing Local History <p style=”text-align: center;”>The Curious Case of the Wives’ Club</p> <figure> <img width=”1109″ height=”702″ src=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BEAVER-COUNTY-TIMES-1967-LEAGUE-OF-WOMEN-VOTERS-names.jpg” alt=”” loading=”lazy” /> <figcaption>Beaver County Times, April 24, 1967, date and caption enhanced for visibility.</figcaption> </figure> <p style=”text-align: center;”>The Artifact</p> This photo is a clipping from the Beaver County Times, a local newspaper published near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The …
Plagiarism: Ripping off Local Historians and History <img width=”638″ height=”372″ src=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/what-is-plagiarism-1-638.jpg” alt=”” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/what-is-plagiarism-1-638.jpg 638w, https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/what-is-plagiarism-1-638-300×175.jpg 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px” /> <p style=”text-align: center;”>Image: Inernational Journal of Research webpage: “Plagiarism” (August 20, 2020)</p> <h1>What Plagiarism Looks Like</h1> <img width=”1064″ height=”747″ src=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/plagiarism-A-B.jpg” alt=”” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/plagiarism-A-B.jpg 1064w, https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/plagiarism-A-B-300×211.jpg 300w, https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/plagiarism-A-B-1024×719.jpg 1024w, https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/plagiarism-A-B-768×539.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 1064px) 100vw, …
I Never Knew That! <h2>Hidden Histories and Mysteries Revealed</h2> <h3><strong>What’s Your “Wait, What?” History Moment?</strong></h3>”I didn’t know that” or “We never learned that in school” seems to be the most common reaction when hearing about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre–where mobs of White residents attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, …
Photo: Used by permission from the Farkas Family Collection. c. 1915. Not in the public domain. “A photograph has much greater historical value if information is available about where and when it was taken and about any people in the photograph.” ~ Preserving History: How to Digitally Archive and Share Historical Photographs, Documents, and Audio Recordings …
This special sampling from our veterans oral history archive presents the voices, images, and accounts of African-American veterans and others with a Western Pennsylvania connection.
Our voice resonates with life. ~Daisaku Ikeda, buddhist philosopher We recently heard the news through a local news source that Joseph Gasper passed away on December 20, 2020. He was one of our nation’s last US military survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Joe was most certainly the last survivor from the greater …
Read more “Going Gentle Into that Good Night: Communities Don’t Let Historic Voices Go Silent”
Radio Theater as Public History “If history were told in the form a stories, it would never be forgotten.” ~ Rudyard Kipling Storytelling is one of humanity’s oldest and continuously practiced activities. In fact, anthropologists claim that there’s a tale still told around campfires in the Australian outback that dates back nearly 10,000 years. That …
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