Wednesday, February 7
Interpreting Difficult History
Presented by Julia Rose, Museum Curator, Johns Hopkins University
How do history workers engage audiences in learning about difficult histories? 
These are the tough stories. These are the recollections from history that can 
be upsetting, uncomfortable and at times even shocking to learn. This session 
will involve participants in learning about how to develop and deliver 
interpretations of difficult histories with strategies that are sensitive and 
offer ethical representations of historical Others. Historical representations 
of difficult histories can go beyond informing audiences by encouraging 
audience members to empathize deeply with the historical suffering of Others 
and to be encouraged to make meaningful connections to those who suffered and 
how their suffering is meaningful to society today.

Julia Rose is the director/curator of Homewood Museum at Johns Hopkins 
University in Baltimore, MD. Previously, she was the director of the West Baton 
Rouge Museum, an AAM accredited regional history museum.  Her primary research 
interests focus on interpreting difficult histories and documenting historical 
enslaved plantation communities for museum interpretations.  Currently, Rose 
serves as the Immediate Past Chairman on the Council for the American 
Association for State and Local History.  She received a Ph.D. from Louisiana 
State University, a Master of Arts in Teaching in Museum Education from the 
George Washington University, and a B.A in Fine Art and Education from State 
University of New York at Albany. She is on the editorial board for the Journal 
of Museum Education. She has held positions at the Columbia Historical Society, 
East Tennessee Historical Society, and Magnolia Mound Plantation. Rose was also 
an assistant professor and an adjunct instructor teaching museum studie
 s at Southern University of New Orleans and Louisiana State University, 
respectively. Her most recent publication is Interpreting Difficult History at 
Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
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Richard Bernstein, Southern Region
Local History-Field Services
Office of Programs and Outreach

Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706
608 264 6583
[email protected]

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