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  • View of Public Scholarship

  • I nurtured my commitment to public outreach and civic engagement as a member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Endowment for Humanities (now, Colorado Humanities).  I enjoyed working with citizens throughout the state on many different kinds of humanities programming.  My CEH experience convinced me of the important contributions that professors can make to enriching the lives of fellow citizens. 

    The Colorado Coal Field War Project has brought significant opportunities to contribute to public scholarship.  Our presentations to community groups—from Daughters of the American Revolution to AFL-CIO Union Summer, with all manner of churches, historical societies, and environmental groups in between—demonstrates the serious popular appeal of the project.  We’ve translated our research findings into public interpretive and commemorative markers for the Ludlow Massacre Memorial and the associated coal camp of Berwind.   The Coal Field War Project also allowed us to renew a collaboration with CEH in the form of Summer Teacher Institutes for Colorado K-12 classroom teachers.  Our aim was to help teachers develop curriculum around labor history, and find ways to negotiate between what we’ve called “official”, “critical”, and “vernacular” understandings of the past. 

    Vandalism of the Ludlow Massacre Memorial in May 2003 spurred a new interest in our work that continues to keep us busy with papers, columns, and “teach-ins” for community groups. Subsequently, project personnel were instrumental in writing the nomination of the Ludlow Tent Colony for protected National Historical Landmark Status. Our archaeological work raised the site's visibility, further established its historical importance, and strengthened the case for protected status. Designation of the Ludlow site as a National Historical Landmark in January 2009 is the most gratifying outcome of the scholarly work. Receiving History Colorado's Stephen H. Hart historic preservation award in 2013 was icing on the cake.

  • Essays

  • An Emancipatory Archaeology for the Working Class (1998)
    http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/4/4duk_sai.html

  • Serving the Public Good (November 2002)

  • Researching People Without History: Challenges and Rewards (5/18/2007)

  • Ethics, Objectivity, and Emancipatory Archaeology (2008)

  • Speaking at the Ludlow Memorial Service (June 2005)
    Speaking at the Ludlow Memorial Service (June 2005)

  • "...But it is the final chapter, Saitta's presentation of the Colorado Coal Field War Archaeological Project, that spells out a satisfying, theoretically informed emancipatory archaeology. Transferring Dewey's notions of pragmatism to archaeological practice, Saitta suggests that archaeologists should evaluate the claims they make about the past in terms of their effects on local disenfranchised communities.  This means parting ways with both empiricism and critical theory, the bourgeois sciences that university tenure committees reward, and descendant communities disparage. Disseminating their knowledge of the Ludlow massacre requires Saitta and his colleagues to reach communities through alternative channels rarely found emanating from the ivory tower: radio broadcasts and union rallies, for instance." 

    -B. Porter, review of Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics, in International Journal of Cultural Property (2009) 16:95-97.

  • Ludlow Project: Articles, Letters, Comments

  • Denver Post: Lessons from History (9/8/2002)

  • Blue Sky Quarterly: Ludlow Massacre (Spring 2003)

  • New Labor Forum: Desecration at Ludlow (2003)

  • Pueblo Chieftain: Ludlow Revisited (6/25/2006)

  • Denver Post: Cultural Differences and Achievement (8/7/2006)

  • Denver Post: Death of Howard Zinn (1/31/2010)
    http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303400
  • American Archaeology article
    American Archaeology article

  • American Archaeology article (Spring 2010)

  • Ludlow Project: Public Television

  • Colorado Experience: The Ludlow Massacre (4/18/2013)

     

     

    Video: Ludlow Massacre | Watch Colorado Experience Online | Rocky Mountain PBS Video
    http://video.rmpbs.org/video/2364997111/

  • Ludlow Project: Public Radio

  • Colorado Public Radio: Colorado Matters (9/19/2002)

     

     

    Audio: Dean Saitta discusses Ludlow Massacre of 1914 | Colorado Public Radio
    https://www.cpr.org/2005/07/08/audio-dean-saitta-discusses-ludlow-massacre-of-1914/

  • Ludlow Project: Student Documentary Films

  • Sarah Goode: A Massacre of Human Rights

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4yy6ABsV0

     

    Ludlow: A Massacre of Human Rights - YouTube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4yy6ABsV0
  • Jackson Fields: Ludlow Massacre

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpf_ywj9S8

     

    Ludlow Massacre: The Bloody Debate Over Unions in Colorado. A documentary by Jackson Fields - YouTube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpf_ywj9S8

  • Press Coverage: Ludlow Monument Vandalism

  • Denver Post: Monument Vandalism (6/30/2003)

    This article by Cate Terwilliger accompanies the Vandalism Reading Assignment posted elsewhere on this page.

  • Colorado Springs Independent: Monument Desecration (7/3/2003)
    http://www.csindy.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A8919

  • Denver Post: Monument Restoration (6/5/2005)

  • Denver Post: Letter about Monument Restoration (6/9/2005)

  • K-12 Classroom Resources: Labor History

  • Grade 4 Lesson Plans

  • Grades 8-12 Lesson Plans

  • Archaeology Resources

  • Monument Vandalism Reading Assignment

    This assignment is to be used in conjunction with Cate Terwilliger's Denver Post article about monument vandalism posted elsewhere on this page.

  • Ludlow Final Report

  • Final Report Part 1.pdf

  • Final Report Part 2.pdf

  • Lest We Forget
    Lest We Forget

  • Stephen H. Hart Award (2013)

  • Hart Award Letter

  • Hart Award
    Hart Award

  • Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission (2013)

  • Ludlow Banner
    Ludlow Banner
  • Op-Ed Column for The Denver Post

    http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_23976508/deadly-ludlow-strike-resonates-100-years-later?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com

     

    Deadly Ludlow strike resonates 100 years later - The Denver Post
    http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_23976508/deadly-ludlow-strike-resonates-100-years-later?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com
  • Westword Story (4/18/2013)
    http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/04/ludlow_massacre_centennial_state_commission.php

  • Designation of Ludlow as National Landmark (2009)

  • Me, the Plaque, and Bob Butero, UMWA District Leader (June 2009)
    Me, the Plaque, and Bob Butero, UMWA District Leader (June 2009)

  • Statement of Archaeological Significance (June 2006)

  • Ludlow Nomination

  • Ludlow Nomination Photos

  • Senator Ken Salazar Letter Supporting the Nomination (1/18/2008)

  • Department of Interior Press Release (on Wikipedia)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Tent_Colony_Site
  • Ludlow Memorial Service, June 2008
    http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/06/30/news/local/doc48686870ef129553132899.txt
  • Pueblo Chieftain Article (2/4/2009)
    http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2009/02/04/news/region/doc49895b078d7bc299899653.txt
  • Ludlow Now National Historic Landmark (2/22/2009)
    http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/02/22/94-years-after-ludlow-massacre-site-now-national-historic-landmark/print/
  • More on the Dedication (6/29/2009)
    http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2009/06/29/news/local/doc4a48436d08877736939346.txt

  • Public Education: Historic Site Interpretation

  • Ludlow Massacre Memorial Interpretive Kiosk

    Text for the interpretive kiosk at the Ludlow Massacre Memorial. Illustrated with historical and archaeological photographs, this is the first major piece of public interpretive material added to the memorial site since its establishment by the UMWA in 1918.

  • Berwind Historical Marker

    Text for the historical marker to be installed at the site of the Berwind coal camp west of Ludlow. This site is at risk of obliteration through modern subdivision and development. This marker is the only effort on record to publically memorialize the site.

  • Ludlow Exhibit Gallery Poster
    Ludlow Exhibit Gallery Poster

  • Ludlow Memorial Interpretive Trail

  • Landscape

  • Timeline

  • Union History

  • Story

  • Company Towns

  • Tent Life

  • Celebration and Sorrow

  • Archaeology 1

  • Archaeology 2

  • Testimonies

  • Legacy (Text Only)

  • Teacher Education

  • Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teacher Institute: Syllabus

    This is the course syllabus for a week long Summer Teacher Institute on Colorado labor history, taught in Trinidad, CO.

  • Colorado Bar Association 2003 Mock Trial: Background History of the Colorado Coal Field War

    This is a background history and teacher's resource for studying the Colorado Coal Field War in a "Progressive Era" context. It was prepared as source material for the Colorado Bar Association's 2003 State High School Mock Trial Competition, "State of Colorado vs. Lt. K.M. Linderfelt".

  • Mining and Indigenous Rights

  • Korbel Dinner Protest (8/31/2007)

    http://blogs.du.edu/magazine/campus-community/korbel-dinner-sparks-protest

    University of Denver MagazineKorbel Dinner sparks protest | University of Denver Magazine
    https://magazine.du.edu/campus-community/korbel-dinner-sparks-protest/

  • Korbel Dinner Dispatch from the Street (8/31/2007)

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