Author Archive
05 October 2021 – Leah Glaser 2
Editor’s note: This is our first installment following an introduction by David Glassberg and Donna Graves for the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series. In Leah S. Glaser’s post, she reminds us of how trees and tree preservation play an important role in public history. Read More
28 July 2020 – Michelle McClellan, Carolyn Barske Crawford and Leah Glaser
Authors’ Note: This is the third of three posts resulting from discussions of our 2019 NCPH annual meeting working group on improving existing National Register nominations. (The first post highlighted technical matters and the second discussed underrepresented communities and the integrity criterion.) Read More
07 June 2013 – Leah Glaser 5
Public historians have long engaged with environmental topics and environmental historians to explore the long-term material effects of the decisions, actions, and conceptions of people in the past. As we move toward the 2014 NCPH conference, with its theme of “Sustainable Public History,” this is a good moment to take stock of some of those disciplinary conversations and to think about how to move them forward in a time of accelerating environmental challenges and crises. Read More
27 July 2012 – Leah Glaser 1
The following list was developed from the case statements of the Public History and Sustainability Working Group at the April 2012 NCPH/OAH conference in Milwaukee as well as from the 2010 Working Group that inaugurated this discussion and some other sources. Read More
20 July 2012 – Leah Glaser 4
The following point paper was developed by participants in the Public Historians and Sustainability Working Group, which met in Milwaukee in April 2012. The paper is currently being circulated to the National Council on Public History Board, and the Working Group invites comments on it here as well. Read More
29 April 2012 – Leah Glaser
conference, public engagement, memory, sense of place, environment, sustainability, international, politics
Historians and Climate Change Panel
NCPH/OAH Annual Conference, Milwaukee, April 20, 2012
Panelists discussed specific ways historians can think about and contribute to solutions about climate change. Chair Phil Scarpino (IUPUI) began by asking, “Why should historians talk about the future? Read More