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08 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Editors’ Note: This is the first of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect public history employment? Read More
16 June 2020 – Steven Cody Straley
The ways we preserve history for the benefit of future generations has changed enormously in the digital era. Yesterday we raised statues and planted roadside markers. Today we utilize the vast potential of the Internet to preserve history with online platforms. Read More
23 January 2020 – Adina Langer 2
digital history, education, government, gentrification, race, urban history, 2020 annual meeting, local history, Atlanta Series 2020
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18th through March 21st in Atlanta, Georgia.
Like many sunbelt cities, Atlanta’s origins are more engineered than organic. Read More
23 October 2019 – Paul Ringel
Last summer, when offered a rare opportunity to receive funding for course development, I applied for a university grant to test the value of incorporating growth mindset theories into my public history course. At first glance, these two pedagogies did not seem particularly compatible, but I was curious to see if I could combine them to a positive effect. Read More
27 August 2019 – Tracy Huddleson 4
There’s a saying I’m fond of for its nudge to face life with boldness: “Leap, and the net will appear.” It’s an especially relevant credo for those thinking about graduate school and a second career at an older age.
Second-career concerns were not top of mind for me until recently. Read More
16 July 2019 – Katie Stringer Clary 1
After moving to a new state and leaving a position as Executive Director of Blount Mansion, a historic house museum, I joined the academic world as an adjunct teaching associate in the history department at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Read More
28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
The Public Historian, methods, public engagement, TPH 40.3, community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series, museums, education, race
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. This is part 2 of a two-part post written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, with questions posed by History@Work editor Adina Langer (AL) and answers given by Deborah Strahorn (DS) of APEX Museum and Marcy Breffle (MB) of Historic Oakland Cemetery. Read More
21 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
memory, Black museums series, collaboration, museums, education, The Public Historian, methods, TPH 40.3, public engagement, community history, African American history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. The piece, written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, considers the collaboration between these two institutions around the interpretation of African American history within the context of the emergence of the field of Black Museums described in Jeff Hayward and Christine Larouche’s article “The Emergence of the Field of African American Museums” and African American history more generally. Read More
16 May 2019 – Sonya Laney
museums, education, race, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, African American history, NCPH 2019 Awards
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Sonya Laney received the New Professional award.
In 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown took the train from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the rural town of Sedalia, North Carolina. Read More
18 April 2019 – Josh Howard 2
practice, public engagement, 2019 annual meeting, collaboration, African American history, education, NCPH 2019 Awards, consultants, race, labor, National Park Service
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Josh Howard of Passel Historical Consulting received the individual “Excellence in Consulting” award. Read More