4th Annual Julian Francis Abele Public History Symposium

Unedited video of the fourth annual Julian Abele "Out of the Shadows" Public History Symposium.
Featuring:
Keynote: Monmouth County, NJ’s Black Heritage Trail
Rick Geffken, Independent Scholar
(We are working to get The Great Hall on this trail.)
Break
Sessions
(15 minutes of remarks with 5 minutes after each for Q&A)
Léon-Victor Solon’s Sun God of the Maya: A Tribute to the Solarium in The Great Hall of Monmouth University
Rachael Goldman, Brookdale Community College
Julian Abele in Photographs
Judge Peter Rogers
100 Years of Duke University: Names to Remember
Durham Museum Staff
The Springwood Avenue Heritage Walk
Diane Shelton, Interfaith Neighbors
Oral Histories of the Army’s “Black Brain Center”
Fred Carl and Herman Redd, InfoAge Science and History Museums at the Camp Evans National Historic Landmark
Monmouth University’s Great Hall: An Update
Tim Orr, Executive Director for Campus Planning and Facilities Management
About the Symposium:
The Symposium is intended as a welcoming place for public history practitioners at all levels, established and emerging scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students to share their public history work on individuals or groups in history whose legacies have been purposefully or inadvertently suppressed, overshadowed, or underappreciated.
The Symposium is named in honor of pioneering African American architect Julian Francis Abele, who contributed greatly to the design of Monmouth University’s Great Hall (previously known as both Shadow Lawn and Wilson Hall). Everyone who has attended Monmouth University has personal memories of the building, a National Historic Landmark. But if you ask them about it, they are probably more likely to mention Woodrow Wilson’s brief time at the original Shadow Lawn (not “ours”), or the current mansion’s starring role as Daddy Warbucks’s home in the movie Annie than they are the fact that it was designed in large part by perhaps “the greatest American born Beaux-Arts architect,” Julian Francis Abele. Monmouth University’s Fall 2020 Museums and Archives Management Basics class sought to increase awareness about Abele’s role in the creation of what is perhaps our University’s most beloved landmark by creating “The Julian Abele Project.” We hope to honor Abele’s name annually with this virtual public history symposium.
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