Public Historians Engage With Gun Violence
On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, sixteen public historians came together for a day of productive building at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in an attempt to scaffold resources and historical interpretation around the issue of mass gun violence. Working through the day, teams assembled existing resources and refashioned them to highlight the kinds of skills and expertise public historians can bring to the many civic conversations that happen in the aftermath of shootings. The results of that work cluster around several areas:
Ways to Respond
Rapid Response Kit
Materials for public historians to access in the immediate aftermath of violence
Historical Interpretation
Interpretation of gun violence
Materials to frame gun violence in a historical perspective that stretches back to the 1770s
Datasets & Web Projects
Explore resources
An aggregation of a wide range of materials, studies, and data about gun violence that can be sorted by categories
Educational Materials
Educational Materials
A crowdsourced list of educational materials for educators to use in the classroom at all levels of education
Understanding Trauma
Trauma resources I
Learn more about trauma, including causes, symptoms and who it affects.
Self-Care and Support for Trauma
Trauma resources II
Find resources to help yourself and others deal with the effects of trauma.
