Donna Graves

Created for the U.S. National Park Service, this public toolkit offers a new approach to site-based climate communication.  History & Hope offers strategies for using people-centered stories to expand understanding of the roots of climate change and to inspire climate action.

This study was designed to deepen understanding of the social landscape of the World War II home front in Richmond, California. Several of the most obvious structures associated with Richmond's wartime past had been identified during preparation of the feasibility study to ...

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Intense development pressures in fast-growing cities threaten to displace many social and ethnic minority populations and the diverse histories they have created. We assess recent efforts of planners and preservationists in San Francisco to develop programs that use history to encourage greater participation of marginalized populations in the local planning process and protect cultural practices that contribute to the city's diversity. We find that these joint efforts to develop broad cultural preservation programs offer the potential to make planning more inclusive of underserved populations and preserve elements of diverse cultural traditions. However, San Francisco's experience demonstrates the challenges these programs present for planning practice because the historic resources of marginalized populations are often more "intangible" than traditional landmarks. The difficulties encountered include adequately identifying such historic sites, creating new tools to protect them, and the openness of planning and preservation professionals to "softer" interpretations of cultural importance. Takeaway for practice: To preserve a diverse range of cultural activities, planners should help social and cultural minorities identify key community assets. Policies that protect these assets can be complicated by the often intangible nature of cultural practices and may require nonstandard measures that go beyond traditional land use regulation.

Selleck District - Japanese Camp, Selleck, Washington Neely Mansion - 12303 Auburn-Black Dimond Road, Auburn, Washington Natsuhara's Store - 622 West Main Street, Auburn, Washington Nippon Kan Hall - 628 South Washington Street, Seattle, Washington Hashidate-Yu - 302 Sixth Avenue South, Seattle, Washington Kokugo Gakko - 1414 South Weller Street, Seattle, Washington Enmanji Temple - 1200 Gravenstein Highway South, Sebastopol, California Kuwabara Hospital and Midwifery - 565 and 580 North Fifth Street, San Jose, California Little Toyko - First Avenue between San Pedro and Central, Los Angeles, California Holiday Bowl - 3730 South Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

Brief allusions have been made by a handful of critics to similarities between painter Florine Stettheimer and poet Emily Dickinson. Whether the intention was to praise, as when Henry McBride wrote that ultimately" Miss Stettheimer's place among the artists is just as distinct ...

In recent years, preservation agencies at the federal, state, and locals levels have advanced more inclusive approaches to historic preservation by commissioning theme studies, surveys, and nominations to registers of historic places that address previously neglected aspects of US heritage. Much of the work done under the broad umbrella of inclusive histories has been focused on communities defined by a single aspect of identity. This essay raises questions about the effectiveness of single-community studies in addressing previously overlooked aspects of history at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and more. We encourage preservation professionals to take seriously the concept of intersectionality, which acknowledges the multivalent quality of lived experience, addresses the complexity of identity, and recognizes the multiplicity of communities with a stake in the preservation and interpretation of any given historic property. This essay argues for the strategic importance of learning from recent studies of LGBTQ resources to refine intersectional approaches to preservation planning, while identifying hidden barriers to inclusion and cultural equity in programs and projects that use a single lens to identify cultural resources associated with underrepresented groups.

I was invited to write a post for the National Council on Public History reflecting on Gregory Rosenthal’s article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” published in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, and on how the Roanoke project relates to other LGBTQ public history projects.

This article appears in a collection "Food & The City" edited by Dorothee Imbert and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. It examines the unique role that Nikkei, Japanese immigrants and their children, played in vegetable, fruit, and flower production in the metropolitan regions of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.