The following sections split work by publications, public talks, and press.
PUBLICATIONS
Sieber, Karen. “Doing Urban Public History: Lessons From the Field.” Journal of Urban History, 2026.
Sieber, Karen. “Disrupting the Campus Tour at the University of Maine.” Decolonizing the Campus: Student Activism, Public History, and the Struggle for Educational Justice since 1870. Eds. John Legg and Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (Under development) 2026.
Sieber, Karen. “Finding Moses: Locating Black Resistance in Territorial Saint Paul” Minnesota History, Summer 2026.
Karen Sieber. “Underground Railroad in Minnesota.” MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society, July 25, 2025.
Sieber, Karen. “Lessons from Chautauqua: The Evolution of the American Education Movement at 150.” Public Humanities 1 (2025): e76. https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.16.
Sieber, Karen. (Review) Red Stained the Life of Hilda Simms, by Jokeda “JoJo” Bell. Minnesota History, Fall 2024.
Sieber, Karen. (Review) Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights, by S. Freedman. Minnesota History, Winter 2023–24 (68.8): 308.
Sieber, Karen. (Review) The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura. MnWE News, October 2023: 4.
Sieber, Karen. “The Black Populist Movement Was Snuffed Out of History Books,” Jacobin, May 2023.
Sieber, Karen. Harnessing the Digital Humanities to Engage With Black History, Minnesota Humanities, February 13, 2023.
Sieber, Karen. “The 1919 Elaine Massacre Was a Violent Response to Black Sharecropper Organizing” Jacobin, September 30, 2022.
Sieber, Karen. “The 1929 Loray Mill Strike Was a Landmark Working-Class Struggle in the US South,” Jacobin, September 14, 2022.
Sieber, Karen and Elijah Gaddis. “History, Memory, and Community in the Redeveloped Mill,” Where Are the Workers? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites, Working Class in American History Series. University of Illinois Press, June 2022.
Sieber, Karen. “Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive,” Labor and Working Class History Association’s Labor(online), 2022.
Sieber, Karen. “In 1919, a Mob in Maine Tarred and Feathered Two Black College Students,” Smithsonian magazine, February 7, 2022.
Sieber, Karen. “The Hidden Story of When Two Black College Students Were Tarred and Feathered,” The Conversation, February 8, 2021. (syndicated nationwide)
Sieber, Karen. “An Act of Tactical History: Creating an Archive of the Red Summer of 1919.” Perspectives on History. American Historical Association, June 3, 2019.
Sieber, Karen. “Experiential Education and Classrooms on Wheels: The Omnibus College’s Road to Knowledge.” Perspectives on History. American Historical Association, Sept. 3, 2019.
Sieber, Karen. “The Brandywine Valley Oral History Project,” The Oral History Review, Volume 46, Issue 1, Winter/Spring 2019, Pages 201–203.
PUBLIC TALKS
“Understanding Minnesota’s Role in the Underground Railroad,” Rochester Community and Technical College Lifelong Learning Center (online), October 15, 2025.
“Hobohemia: Examining the Rich Cultural Lives of American Hoboes,” Minnesota Transportation Museum, September 10, 2025.
“Teaching the Underground Railroad in Minnesota,” History Fest (educator workshops), Minnesota History Center, August 14, 2025.
“The Past and Future Lives of the Justus Ramsey House,” Minnesota Transportation Museum (with Waldmann Brewing), July 16, 2025.
“Minnesota’s Connection to Juneteenth and the Emancipation Story of William Costley,” History Center of Olmsted County, June 16, 2025
“Moses Dickson and the Underground Railroad in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1849-1858,” Gale Family Research Library Legacy Fellows Speaker Series, Minnesota History Center, March 12, 2025
“History Revealed: Finding Moses Dickson,” Ramsey County Historical Society and East Side Freedom Library, St. Paul, MN. June 20, 2024.
Sieber, Karen and Sam Younger. “Chebacco Chats (S3E12): Imagining Sorrento,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society speaker series, November 12, 2022.
Featured panelist, “Reframing History Working Group,” American Association for State and Local History Conference, September 15, 2022.
Sieber, Karen. “The Educated Down and Out: Mapping Chicago’s Hobohemia.” American Historical Association Conference Lightning Round, January 2020.
Sieber, Karen. “Flipping the Classroom with DH: An Experiment in Repackaging US History,” Digital Pedagogy Round, American Historical Association Conference, 2019.
Sieber, Karen. The Well-Read President, American Historical Association Conference, January 2018.
Sieber, Karen. “Fighting the Power: Honoring the Work of Bill Tuttle,” The Tuttle Distinguished Lecture in American Studies, University of Kansas, 2017.
Sieber, Karen. Bromancing Teddy: The Well-Read President. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017.
Sieber, Karen. “Visualizing the Red Summer of 1919: Insight through access to primary documents.” Digital Humanities Forum, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, October 2016.
PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
Interview, “The Legacy of the Underground Railroad in Minnesota,” Fox 9, Aug. 11, 2025.
Interview, “Seeking Freedom in Minnesota” MinneCulture (podcast), KFAI, 2025.
Interview, “Karen Sieber on Public History,” Working Historians podcast, March 12, 2025.
Interview, “Minnesota Now and Then: Minnesota’s role in the Underground Railroad,” Minnesota Public Radio, July 8, 2024.
Stokes, Kyle. “St. Paul’s new link to Black history” Axios, June 30, 2024.
Interview with Dr. Artika Tyner, “Finding Moses Dickson: The untold story of Minnesota and the Underground Railroad,” Monitor (St. Paul), June 12, 2024.
“Discovering an Obscure Black Underground Railroad Leader in Minnesota,” Minnesota Women’s Press, February 18, 2024.
Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. Interview. CBS News documentary with Gayle King, May 31, 2021. (Re-aired on Smithsonian, BET, and National Geographic channels)
“Sieber Featured in Upcoming CBS Special about Tulsa Massacre,” UMaine News, May 27, 2021.
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