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  • Around the field Oct 25, 2016

    […] (for Latinos in heritage conservation), Spain (on heritage architecture), and Poland (on heritage and society); online class on paranormal investigations in museums/historic sites starts on Halloween; teaching Wikipedia editing at London library; and new open access book on natural and cultural conservation in Kenya CONFERENCES and CALLS “Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism, and Belonging” […]

  • Wikipedians at the National Archives

    […] and Mississippi Rivers. This event was the first of its kind for a National Archives (NARA) regional facility, as well as a first for the Kansas City Wikipedia community. Wikipedia geo-notices and email notifications promoted the meetup, and a Wikipedia events page allowed participants to obtain further information and submit an RSVP. The full […]

  • I, Too, Sing America: Integrating the voices of all Americans in historic preservation

    […] Public Historian, describing its significance and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.  Harbor of Town of St. George, Bermuda, 2006. Photo by Aodhdubh at English Wikipedia. CC BY 2.5, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/. Historic preservation exists to tell stories of our journeys as a people and as a nation, but somehow along the way the […]

  • Keeping the faith: Political cartoons in and out of the archives

    […] that carry it. Charles Philipon was put on trial in 1831 for caricaturing the French king, including by showing the monarch’s resemblance to a pear. Photo credit: Wikipedia But until the 2005 riots following the Danish Jyllands-Posten’s publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed, there is little evidence in Navasky’s timeline of the kind […]

  • Defining success: Seeking clarity or accepting uncertainty?

    How should public history graduate programs measure success? Photo credit: Wikipedia Lufkin tape measure What constitutes success for a public history graduate program?  A strong placement record?  Student mastery of a set of professional skills?  Or perhaps cultivation of our discipline’s habits of mind? One might say, “It depends”–on whom you ask, when you […]

  • You can do better

    Wikipedia 101 workshop at the 2014 NCPH Annual Meeting in Monterey, CA. Photo credit: NCPH In 2011, the Professional Development Committee developed a set of guidelines for annual meeting workshops. We see workshops as providing hands-on and participatory experiences which impart practical information, rather than the typical conference presentation or “show and tell” […]

  • Building the public trust: Preservation’s middle age?

    […] and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation. Brucemore in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was bequeathed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1981. Photo credit: Wikipedia When Madeline Cirrillo Archer published “Where We Stand: Preservation Issues in the 1990s,” she sought to assess the challenges facing a movement that was a quarter-century […]

  • NCPH News and conference updates April 10, 2013 – New feature of the public history journal of record

    […] Business meeting to find out who they are!  A limited number of tickets will be available onsite for the breakfast if you haven’t made your purchase yet. Wikipedia and Women’s History Site: A Mini-Editathon  Join the National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites during the NCPH in Ottawa (Friday, 1:30-3pm, Seigniory Room) to explore the […]

  • Mass collaboration and historical synthesis in “The American Yawp”

    […] called “The American Yawp.” Over a decade ago, in the pages of the Journal of American History, pioneering digital historian Roy Rosenzweig pondered the democratic triumph of Wikipedia. Rosenzweig encouraged academics to not only improve the site’s quality directly, but also to produce scholarly alternatives of our own.[1] Rosenzweig knew that emerging technologies could […]

  • Around the Field – January 28, 2026

    […] Taylor, Jr, on February 7, 2026 in Kent, WA. This community celebration will feature music, dance, and devotionals celebrating Black history Wiki Education is hosting “Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives,” a webinar centering on student editors’ experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework, on February 11, 2026 The Lincoln Presidential Foundation and […]