Tag Archive
14 May 2020 – James F. Brooks
Editor's Corner, race, The Public Historian, TPH 42.2, music, commemoration, Immigration, public history, heritage tourism
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online free through June 2020, courtesy of the University of California Press, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
11 March 2020 – Michelle Moon and Kathryn Lloyd
Authors’ Note: As you may be aware, NCPH annual meeting status has changed. We are planning to proceed with the group’s work, though we are not sure as to format as yet. We will talk with co-facilitators when we have a sense of the remote alternatives and be in communication with NCPH and prospective participants about the plan. Read More
19 February 2020 – Kathryn E. Wilson
community history, sense of place, government, Immigration, 2020 annual meeting, Atlanta Series 2020, demographics
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18 through March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
You may be surprised to learn that one of the largest Hindu temples in the United States is located just outside Atlanta, and that the city is home to the second-largest Bhutanese community in the country. Read More
24 October 2019 – Paul V. Dudman
archives, oral history, Immigration, libraries, 2019 archives month series, representation, refugees, social justice
Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
04 July 2019 – David Rotenstein 1
community history, collaboration, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, Immigration, advocacy, art
Jack Schmitt has mixed feelings about the way that the Pennsylvania Route 28 project turned out. On one hand, the longtime Pittsburgh historic preservation advocate beams when he talks about how he successfully convinced the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to replicate historic Pennsylvania Canal lock stones in a retaining wall in the urban highway corridor. Read More
20 March 2019 – Kristina Oschmann 4
slavery, Immigration, American Civil War, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, American Revolution, community history, sense of place, race
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
Growing up in eastern Connecticut, my thoughts of Hartford were a mix of positives and negatives. Read More
12 March 2019 – Nancy Finlay
2019 annual meeting, elections, Hartford series 2019, community history, archives, race, conference, gender/sexuality, Immigration
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
The Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library houses some remarkable records pertaining to Connecticut’s capital. Read More
01 January 2019 – Andrew Lang 2
In recent years, the debate over immigration and migration to the United States has been especially pronounced, with calls to end “invasions” of “illegal immigrants” from Latin America, build a border wall, institute a “Muslim travel ban,” refuse refugees seeking asylum, and rescind birthright citizenship. Read More
26 July 2018 – Adina Langer
Editors’ Note: This is the second part of a two-part editorial conversation on interpreting immigration in public history. Part 1 is available here.
AJL: How can public historians effectively take an intersectional approach to interpreting immigration? How can we bring different audiences and stakeholders together? Read More
19 July 2018 – Adina Langer 3
advocacy, social justice, community history, human rights, international, politics, race, Immigration
Editors’ Note: Four years ago, outgoing NCPH president Bob Weyeneth called on public historians to “pull back the curtain” on their process. Turning topics of contemporary relevance into public history involves numerous collegial conversations which usually remain behind the scenes. The History@Work editors thought our readers might be interested in the following conversation prompted by Adina Langer’s development of a new exhibition at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. Read More