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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
02 August 2018 – editors
Anna Gibson Holloway is the former maritime historian for the Maritime Heritage Program of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Previously she was the vice president of collections and programs, as well as curator, of the USS Monitor Center at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Read More
17 July 2018 – Megan Smeznik
Pedagogy, digital history, Digital Literacy, education, Digital humanities, training, instruction, digital media
“Click here. Click once more. And once more…” As an educational technologist at an undergraduate liberal arts college, I hear these words frequently. I often call on my skills as a public historian when it comes to solving problems related to digital pedagogies and understanding the context of technology in the classroom and beyond. Read More
29 May 2018 – Beatrice Gurwitz 3
Editor’s note: This piece from the National Humanities Alliance is being circulated in a variety of relevant venues.
Think pieces abound on how best to make the case for the value of studying the humanities—should we as a humanities community emphasize the quite respectable career and salary outcomes of humanities majors or do we then fall into the trap of suggesting that higher education is necessary only for economic gain? Read More
16 April 2018 – Tony Pierucci
There’s a gap between intellectually understanding something and actually grasping it and all of its ramifications. Two days into my new job in 2014, I fell headlong into that yawning space between intellectual understanding and grasping and spent the next few months scraping my knees and elbows clambering back out again. Read More
10 January 2018 – Pamela Curtin and David Trowbridge 4
History is all around us—in the streets, buildings, and artwork that make up the landscapes of our everyday lives. Recognizing the potential of mobile devices to connect us to these pieces of the past, historians at Marshall University developed Clio, an educational website and mobile application. Read More
06 December 2017 – Modupe Labode 1
NCPH Board Member Posts, collaboration, scholarship, profession, employment, training, new professionals
Whenever public historians first began working in academic units, it is likely that soon after, their peers questioned whether public history scholarship—exhibitions, class projects, and reports—counted toward tenure. “Count” is academic shorthand for work that is considered to be scholarship or research. Read More
25 September 2017 – editors 3
Jessica Baldwin Phillips was raised and educated in New York’s historically rich Hudson Valley. After receiving a BA in history from Marist College (with minors in politics and philosophy), she went on to obtain an MA in public history at the University at Albany. Read More
16 May 2017 – Jordan Biro Walters 1
In her 1903 work Social Culture, Annie Randall White encouraged unmarried women over the age of thirty to form domestic partnerships with each other: “Many of our ‘bachelor girls’ live together and are the happiest people imaginable.” [1]
Yet just two years later, Dr. Read More
31 March 2017 – Denise Meringolo 2
James Oliver Horton, emeritus professor of history and American Studies at the George Washington University, died on February 20, 2017 after a long illness.
Jim Horton was, at heart, a teacher. A former student, Dr. Laurel Clark Shire, recalled his tremendous faith that “all history, no matter how sophisticated or basic, could be presented to any audience.” Read More