Rosie Presents! In Conversation with Historian Donna Graves

Donna Graves is a nationally respected public historian whose work sits at the intersection of preservation, community engagement, and social equity.

For decades, she has collaborated with communities to research, document, and interpret histories that traditional narratives often leave behind, particularly those of
women, workers, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ communities.

A key contributor to Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Donna has helped reframe how we understand the American home front by centering diverse experiences and local stories. Her work challenges us to think more expansively about what counts as history, whose stories are preserved, and how place can foster belonging, justice, and hope.

Donna Graves is a nationally respected public historian whose work sits at the intersection of preservation, community engagement, and social equity. For decades, she has collaborated with communities to research, document, and interpret histories that traditional narratives often leave behind, particularly those of women, workers, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ communities.

A key contributor to Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Donna has helped reframe how we understand the American home front by centering diverse experiences and local stories. Her work challenges us to think more expansively about what counts as history, whose stories are preserved, and how place can foster belonging, justice, and hope.

In dialogue with Pamela Buckingham, Communications and Marketing Manager with the Trust, Donna Graves will discuss her work with community-centered history projects, including World War II home front sites, and examine how everyday places labor, and lived experiences shape public memory.

Together, the conversation will explore whose stories are remembered, how equity and inclusion can inform interpretation, and why place-based history matters, and how places like Rosie the Riveter can help us understand our current moment.

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