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  • Cultural resources and climate change: bridging the relevancy gap

    […] forestry techniques to helping the overgrazed and overforested lands recover. Mary and Laurance Rockefeller took the Marsh and Billings legacy of conservation across the nation with their advocacy for national parks and protected lands. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP has become a model for sustainable building and energy practices. The park’s landscape is a working forest, the […]

  • Peer review in a world of professional practice

    […] history professionals assert “academic freedom” at their own risk. We must be diplomatic in tone and focus, or we really do risk alienating our tenuous community of advocacy and support. I agree that there’s a sense that we’re “all in this together,” but, at the same time, I think that communities benefit from a […]

  • The American Civilization Institute: A case study in radical public history education

    […] opportunities. Rather, founders of the ACIM recognized that growing interest in historic preservation provided them with an opportunity to connect research and interpretation to political activism and advocacy. The 1960s was a period of tremendous activity in the realms of historical commemoration and preservation. In New Jersey, the state’s tercentennial celebration coincided with national […]

  • Around the field Oct. 11, 2016

    […] a talk for the Public History Discussion Group by Jordan James, Play Heritage Worker – 11 a.m. Oct 22, 2016, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, U.K. “Archives, Advocacy and Change: Tales from Four New York City Collections” – Oct. 26, 2016, New York, New York, U.S. History Day presents student projects, research clinics and […]

  • Ask a consulting historian: Morgen Young

    […] historians–we have to determine our hourly fees, we have to market our services, and we have to balance doing historical work with running a business. Beyond the advocacy component, I love historical consulting because I get to constantly work on new projects. For many of the exhibits I’ve curated, I have had to become […]

  • Building an interdisciplinary discipline

    […] The time is ripe to innovate, to unify these practices under the umbrella of history communication, and to enhance it with best practices from history, journalism, communications, advocacy, business, and the Web. That is where we are headed, with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Purdue University as the willing co-pilots. Soon students at […]

  • Speaking of the survey (Part 4): Perceived weaknesses of The Public Historian

    […] of different sectors of the field. Respondents also called for “more provocative conversation” and “debates and disagreements.” A few wanted greater emphasis on public policy issues and advocacy. Finally, I note a group of comments about “how the journal doesn’t meet my interests,” that “I’m a busy professional [or graduate student] with no time […]

  • Judging History Day: Making history fun and relevant!

    […] arguments. Such judges award the creation of chronicles as opposed to careful analysis. Judges instead can be guides to direct students toward history and away from present-minded advocacy in their work, especially when students select topics that turn on current hot-button issues. As public historians, we encourage our students to be serious and socially […]

  • Public history, academic history, and the “job crisis”

    […] question seems as good as any with which to begin my contribution to this blog. Public historians inside and outside academic departments should welcome Grafton and Grossman’s advocacy of our work and their call to bring elements of public history into doctoral program curricula. Furthermore, we should emphasize–as Grafton and Grossman do–that public history […]