Amy M Tyson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1505483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy M Tyson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyson |
| SIGNATURE | TYSON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History for Hire
This essay examines the labor, passion, and precarity of freelance historical performers—independent contractors who portray figures such as Abraham Lincoln or Harriet Tubman for schools, libraries, and civic groups. Drawing on oral histories and fieldwork at an Abraham Lincoln Presenters’ Conference, it explores how these “presenters” navigate purpose, instability, and inequity within the cultural freelance economy. Their experiences reveal how …
Black Public History in Chicago
Book Review| July 01 2019 Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War. By Ian Rocksborough-Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 214 pp. List of illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99 (cloth); $28 (paper). Amy M. Tyson Amy M. Tyson DePaul University Amy M. Tyson is Associate Professor o…
Crafting emotional comfort
This essay offers ethnographic accounts of two living history museums, Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Conner Prairie, in Fishers, Indiana. While Snelling's programming worked to erase the history of slavery at the site, Conner Prairie fore-grounded the trauma of slavery in a special after-hours event wherein customers paid to role-play for 90 minutes as fugitive slaves on Indiana's underground railroad in 1836. As different as…
Ask a Slave” and Interpreting Race on Public History’s Front Line
In this interview, Azie Mira Dungey (creator of the web series, "Ask a Slave") and Amy M. Tyson (Associate Professor of History at DePaul University and author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines) discuss Dungey's web series, as well as her experiences as a living history interpreter at both the Smithsonian Museum of American History and at Mount Vernon
The Dress of Women
Ask a Slave” and Interpreting Race on Public History’s Front Line
In this interview, Azie Mira Dungey (creator of the web series, "Ask a Slave") and Amy M. Tyson (Associate Professor of History at DePaul University and author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines) discuss Dungey's web series, as well as her experiences as a living history interpreter at both the Smithsonian Museum of American History and at Mount Vernon
Crafting emotional comfort
This essay offers ethnographic accounts of two living history museums, Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Conner Prairie, in Fishers, Indiana. While Snelling's programming worked to erase the history of slavery at the site, Conner Prairie fore-grounded the trauma of slavery in a special after-hours event wherein customers paid to role-play for 90 minutes as fugitive slaves on Indiana's underground railroad in 1836. As different as…
The Dress of Women
Ask a Slave” and Interpreting Race on Public History’s Front Line
In this interview, Azie Mira Dungey (creator of the web series, "Ask a Slave") and Amy M. Tyson (Associate Professor of History at DePaul University and author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines) discuss Dungey's web series, as well as her experiences as a living history interpreter at both the Smithsonian Museum of American History and at Mount Vernon
Crafting emotional comfort
This essay offers ethnographic accounts of two living history museums, Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Conner Prairie, in Fishers, Indiana. While Snelling's programming worked to erase the history of slavery at the site, Conner Prairie fore-grounded the trauma of slavery in a special after-hours event wherein customers paid to role-play for 90 minutes as fugitive slaves on Indiana's underground railroad in 1836. As different as…
Black Public History in Chicago
Book Review| July 01 2019 Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War. By Ian Rocksborough-Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 214 pp. List of illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99 (cloth); $28 (paper). Amy M. Tyson Amy M. Tyson DePaul University Amy M. Tyson is Associate Professor o…
History for Hire
This essay examines the labor, passion, and precarity of freelance historical performers—independent contractors who portray figures such as Abraham Lincoln or Harriet Tubman for schools, libraries, and civic groups. Drawing on oral histories and fieldwork at an Abraham Lincoln Presenters’ Conference, it explores how these “presenters” navigate purpose, instability, and inequity within the cultural freelance economy. Their experiences reveal how …
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (2 works) · Political science (2 works)