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dc.contributor.advisorBruggeman, Seth C., 1975-
dc.creatorBernard, Erin Cecilia
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03T15:34:16Z
dc.date.available2020-11-03T15:34:16Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.other920555121
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/2597
dc.description.abstractThe Philadelphia Public History Truck is a nearly two-year-old mobile museum project which creates interdisciplinary exhibitions about the history of Philadelphia neighborhoods with those who live, work, and play within the places and spaces of the city. Since I founded the project in 2013, I have navigated partnerships with both grassroots organizations and larger institutions and faced a wide-ranging gamut of experiences worthy of examination by public historians concerned with power and production of history as well as practice-based reflexivity. The first half of this thesis documents my key reflections of the first eighteen months of work and serves as a primary source on the project. This paper also places History Truck into a long historiography of both public history and mobility in the United States of America to explain the emergence of what I am calling the New Mobile History, an emerging form of practice in which community members and public historians work together from the onset of project development using ephemerality and movement as a tool for creativity and civic-driven history making. By analyzing oral history interviews with Cynthia Little and Michael Frisch, I argue firstly that Philadelphia was the birthplace of this New Mobile History. Secondly, I posit that for this New Mobile History to continue evolving, public historians must balance digital work and relationship-based process to create exhibitions which directly serve communities of memory. Lastly, I consider one possible future for History Truck, including its transformation from project to nonprofit organization manned by post-M.A. fellows who have the ability to work passionately on city streets and with new media.
dc.format.extent90 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
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dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectMuseum Studies
dc.subjectArt History
dc.subjectCommunity Curatorial Process
dc.subjectHistory Truck
dc.subjectMobile Museum
dc.subjectNew Mobile History
dc.subjectOral History
dc.subjectPublic History
dc.titleHistory Truck Unlimited: The New Mobile History, Urban Crisis, and Me
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberLowe, Hilary Iris
dc.contributor.committeememberLockenour, Jay, 1966-
dc.description.departmentHistory
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2579
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dc.description.degreeM.A.
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