Between Fences Speakers Bureau

New Speakers Bureau programs explore whether or not "good fences make good neighbors."

We invite you to take a closer look at fences in our neighborhoods, countryside and urban landscapes as well as those in our minds and within society.

MHC has assembled an array of Speakers Bureau programs that offer new ways to look at fences. Designed to accompany the traveling Smithsonian exhibition Between Fences, these programs will be available from 2010 to 2011. Invite these speakers to your town; they are sure to engage audiences, create conversations and inspire community members to come together across borders and backyard fences for great discussions.

Join us and cross the crabgrass frontier, walk the Mason-Dixon line, drive the interstate highway system, explore state and national parks, reflect on racial divides, discuss immigration, get the dirt on sustainable agriculture, or maybe be inspired to write a story or poem.

Please click on the title below for more information about each Speaker's program.

• Bridging Red, Black and White: The Making of the Chesapeake from the Colonial Period through the Early Republic by Omar Ali

• Rebel Heels and Northern Scum: Maryland's Role in the Civil War by Tom Clemens

• The Mason-Dixon Line: The Stories behind a Geographic Boundary
  Uncovering the Boundaries in Our Communities by Mike Dixon

• The Border Fence in US Immigration History by Martin Ford

• Technology and Fragmentation: New Fences and Old Problems by Stephen Frantzich

• Boundaries, Borders, and Freedom: The Fence as Symbol and Metaphor by Michael Glaser

• Liberty and Security in America by Mel Goodman

• Race Women, Race Man: Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Gloria Richardson, and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Sharon Harley

• The Chesapeake Bay: Dividing and Connecting Maryland by Ed Okonowicz

• Writers on Walls and Fences by Carrol Peterson

• Nineteenth Century Baltimore: A City of Immigrants by Wayne Schaumburg

• Fighting for Freedom: Black Women's Army Corps during World War II by Janet Sims-Wood

• Agriculture, the Environment, Food, and Sustainability by David Smith

• Frederick Law Olmsted: His Legend and His Legacy by Judith Smith

• National and State Parks: Constructing the Wilderness/Society Boundary by Paul Wapner

• The Crab Grass Frontier: Lawns, Sensibilities, and Sustainability by Jack Wennersten

• Rivers, Bridges, Transportation and Roads: Infrastructures in History by Thomas Zeller