The Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop will give you the tools you need to make sense of the raw material of history: primary and secondary sources. You’ll learn how historians use primary and secondary sources to understand, write, publish, and exhibit past events.
The workshop will be offered at 5 locations around Ohio. See the list below for the location nearest you.
Dates and Locations
The Historian's Craft Brass Tacks Workshops
Sidney - October 8, 2009, 9am-3:30pm, Sidney Board of Education, 750 South 4th Avenue, hosted by the Shelby County Historical Society
Kidron – November 10, 2009, 9am-3:30pm, Kidron-Sonnenberg Heritage Center, 13153 Emerson Road
Groveport – January 12, 2010, 9am-3:30pm, Groveport Cultural Arts Center/Groveport Town Hall, 648 Main Street
Bremen – February 15, 2010, 9am-3:30pm, Bremen Area Historical Society, 161 Carter Street
Trenton – May 11, 2010, 9am-3:30 pm, Fellowship Hall of the Trenton Mennonite Church, 2 East Main Street, hosted by the Chrisholm Historic Farmstead
Two historians well-known in Ohio will lead the workshops: J.D. Britton, the former director of Ohio Historical Society’s Local History Office and Tim Messer-Kruse, the Chair of the Ethnics Studies Program at Bowling Green State University and a founded of the web site Toledo’s Attic (www.toledosattic.org).
Workshop topics include
- Difference between primary and secondary sources
- Using primary and secondary sources to interpret museum artifacts
- Telling the difference between good and not-so-good secondary sources
The Historian’s Craft concludes with a presentation by Jack Shortlidge, of the Ohio Humanities Council. He will describe grants available from the Ohio Humanities Council, eligibility requirements, and how to apply.
The Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop is offered in conjunction with the Ohio tour of the traveling exhibit Between Fences. Between Fences is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) service. MoMS is a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution and state humanities councils. MoMS mission is to bring high-quality, low-cost traveling exhibits to small towns across the nation. The Ohio Humanities Council is our state’s sponsor of Between Fences and is a co-sponsor, with OAHSM and OHS’s Local History Office, of The Historian's Craft Brass Tacks Workshop.
To learn more about “Between Fences” and the Smithsonian’s Museums on Main Street Service, go to www.museumonmainstreet.org and click on Between Fences.
The Between Fences exhibit will travel to these locations around Ohio from September 2009 to July 2011.
Sidney
September 12 – October 16, 2009
Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop: October 9
Ross Historical Center / Shelby County Historical Society
201 North Main Avenue
(937) 498-1653
Kidron
October 18 – November 18, 2009
Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop: November 10
Kidron-Sonnenberg Heritage Center
3153 Emerson Road
330-857-9111
Groveport
December 29, 2009 – January 29, 2010
Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop: January 12
Groveport Cultural Arts Center / Groveport Town Hall
648 Main Street
(614) 836-3333
Bremen
February 2 – March 2, 2010
Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop: February 15
Bremen Area Historical Society
161 Carter Street
(740) 569-4099
London (Ohio)
March 5 – April 5, 2010
Madison County Museum of the Madison County Historical Society
260 East High Street
(614) 852-2977
Bowling Green
April 8 – May 7, 2010
Wood County Historical Center
13660 County Home Road
419.352.0967
Trenton
May 11 – June 10, 2010
Historian’s Craft Brass Tacks Workshop: May 11
Chrisholm Historic Farmstead
2070 Woodsdale Road
(513) 726-5265
Lakeside
June 14 – July 11, 2010
The Lakeside Association
236 Walnut Avenue
(419) 798-4461 x239
The Ohio Humanities Council, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities , is pleased to help support The Historian's Craft: Understanding the Past through Primary and Secondary Sources.
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