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21 August 2018 – Max Farley
Last July, during the final months of a summer archival fellowship at the Memphis Public Library, my academic advisor contacted me about a public history opportunity at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Read More
20 June 2018 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
collaboration, education, graduate students, slavery, projects, working group, methods, campus, community history, sense of place
Can campus history be public history? NCPH members and others, both inside and outside of the academy, have been grappling with this question for years, considering the often-fraught town/gown and faculty/administration relationships many of our colleagues face. The ways that we answer this question have changed significantly over the last decade, however, as dozens of colleges and universities have endeavored to reckon with the reality of their histories, many in response to institutional connections to slavery. Read More
03 February 2017 – Will Walker
In January 1950, in a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, pioneering museum studies educator Louis C. Jones illuminated the vital connection between folklore and history and its relationship to the public history community. Read More
04 May 2016 – Emily McEwen 3
In June 2014, when I finished my PhD in history, with a research emphasis in public history, I thought I was pretty hot stuff. And rightfully so. I had worked for eight long years slogging through coursework, exams, conference presentations, fellowship applications, TAships, a year of research, and a solid year and a half of dissertation writing to achieve my goal. Read More
25 April 2016 – editors
Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History. The goal of the project is to move conversations about history from the hallways to the airwaves.
The bi-weekly program debuted on the campus radio station, KPSU, in October 2015. Read More
28 March 2016 – editors
Jeff Sellers serves as the curator of education at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, TN, and has been there since 2005. He is past-president of the Inter-museum Council of Nashville and currently serves on the National Council On Public History New Professional Award Committee. Read More
15 July 2015 – Peter Blackmer 1
As I scrolled through my list of unread emails a couple weeks ago, I paused on a subject line that was at once nostalgic and saddening: “A Celebration of the Life of Dr. Vivian O. Windley.” Dr. Windley was a well-respected educator and highly regarded volunteer at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Read More
23 April 2015 – Juliana Glassco 1
It is often said that everyone should work in the customer service industry at some point in their lives so that they can understand what it’s like to interact with the world from the other side of the cash register. I feel the same way about traditional building trades. Read More
23 March 2015 – editors
Every history major is familiar with this question, and while a few undergraduates may have an answer at the ready, many aren’t exactly sure what they want to do with their degree. For the past year and a half, the NCPH New Professional and Graduate Student Committee has worked hard to create a resource to better prepare undergraduates and graduate students to enter and succeed in the public history profession:
The Public History Navigator: How to Choose and Thrive in a Public History Graduate Program
Section one of this two-part guide investigates how to choose and apply to a graduate program and encourages students to find the right program and degree for their ultimate career goals. Read More
08 January 2015 – Angela Thorpe
public engagement, education, profession, employment, training, race, graduate students, new professionals
This is the final post in a series on issues of diversity in the public history field. You can find the previous posts in the series here.
As public historians, we have many responsibilities, but, as a baseline, we are charged with making history relevant, meaningful, and accessible to amateur historians, students, families, and scholars alike. Read More