MISSION
By exploring local history and initiating dialogue, the Mobile History Project
seeks to connect and empower citizens to know more and do more in the community.
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PURPOSE
to active citizenship by expanding knowledge and engagement
to create resources which expand our perspective on the past
to explore the connections between the past and present so they may guide us toward a more enlightened, peaceful and prosperous future.
GOALS
The more we understand about the past, the better we are able to reconcile perceived differences and move toward the future with unity and confidence.
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With this in mind, the goals of the Mobile History Project are
to build unity and inspire progress,
to strengthen civic identity and a shared commitment to the city's future
by providing useful and relevant resources in local history
which increase awareness of
Mobile's unique role in the broader context of American history.
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The Mobile History Project encourages an historical perspective
which embraces both triumphs and failures,
a more inclusive and document-based perspective on Mobile's historical narrative.
Realizing that no idea or event takes place in isolation, the Short Stories blog illuminates people and events which have been traditionally overlooked or under-represented, encourages empathy and understanding by exploring the motivation and causes of historical events, and identifies the patterns and actions which create community values.
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Exploring not only what happened but why, the resources of the
Mobile History Project
are intended to establish a more coherent link from the past to the present
and a clearer, more unified path to the future.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
invites us to "share a place that helps tell a little-known or underrepresented piece of the American story."
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MobileHistoryProject.com was created to serve this purpose, seeking to explore little-known pieces of the past so that, from this mosaic of diverse cultures and people, emerges a more authentic picture of the unique heritage we all share.
#TellTheFullStory
and the Mobile Dialogue
was created in the Belief that citizens who KNOW MORE, identify more closely with the community and its success,
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because informed citizens DO MORE,
both in the community and for the community,
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The Mobile Dialogue seeks to
EXPAND PUBLIC ACCESS
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INSPIRE ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
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In other words,
knowledge leads to engagement
and engagement leads to commitment
and when citizens are committed to the community,
they share a responsibility
for making it the best it can be,
now and in the future.
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