Suffragette leaders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst

As a way to conclude this month’s discussion on The Power of Place: How Sites of Conscience Inspire Civic Engagement, I want to offer some suggestions for folks who, like me, may not have much to do with museums in their daily lives. I mean, there’s a limited number of us who are going to join the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience<, right? So what are some of the ways the rest of us can make our activism more powerful using historical sites and history-based tactics?

Here are a few ideas that any group, any individual can use to promote human rights and a social change agenda with the help of history. Somewhere in between simply touring a museum, or starting one yourself, there’s a whole range of things you can do to make History work for you.