The UMKC History Department and Center for Midwestern Studies are proud to announce that six of our MA students in the Public History Emphasis—Taylor Bye, Kathryn Carpenter, Samantha Hollingsworth, Leah Palmer, Kevin Ploth, and Jennifer Tufts—have received two awards for their exhibit Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights. The project chronicles Kansas City’s pivotal role in launching the LGBTQ movement prior to the Stonewall riots, and began as part of Dr. Christopher Cantwell’s Public History Theory and Method course in Fall 2016.
Making History was awarded the National Council on Public History’s Student Project Prize. NCPH gives the award to “an outstanding public history student project initiated as academic coursework and implemented and recognized beyond the classroom for its contribution to the field of public history.” In addition, the exhibit won the the Alice Smith Public History award from the Midwestern History Association.
Making History is currently touring different libraries and universities across the region. For more information visit info.umkc.edu/makinghistory.