Plugging back in to the sustainability conversation (and ungating our digital publication)

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report coverConference-goers at the National Council on Public History’s annual meeting in Monterey, California, last March were given an advance look at a digital anthology compiled to complement the conference theme of “Sustainable Public History.”  Containing some materials from this blog, some from previous conference working groups focusing on environmental issues, and some new materials, the anthology, called “Public History in a Changing Climate,” was an effort to gather together some of the threads of what is still an emergent discussion within the field.

PH 36_3 Aug2014-page1It was also the first of what we hope will be many collaborations between the print and digital publications in which NCPH is involved.  The print side of this project is just about to make its appearance with a special issue of The Public Historian devoted to environmental sustainability.  Edited by Leah Glaser, it includes in-depth pieces on how climate change is reshaping places and memories of places, cultural resource management practice, approaches to historic preservation, and the kinds of politics and pedagogy happening at public history sites around the world.

To mark the release of the special journal issue, we’ve now made its digital companion accessible to all.  We invite you to download the PDF (as well as take a look at the digital reading list which complements Leah’s bibliographic round-up in the journal).   As students and educators head back to the classroom for another academic year and as nascent conversations continue in public agencies, museums, and many other places, we hope that these sister publications–the print and the digital–can contribute to our collective reflection about the roles public historians can play in education and action around issues of energy and climate change.

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