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  • Editor’s Corner: the work of public history

    […] pieces in this issue are attentive to public historians’ ongoing difficulties and setbacks in the workplace and also provide models of success and paths forward to greater accessibility, equality, and support. ~Sarah H. Case, the editor of The Public Historian, earned her MA and Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, […]

  • Learning Across Landscapes: Building Global Public History Partnerships in Scotland

    […] and the university. Our program has shown that study abroad, when rooted in collaboration and applied research, is an investment in both educational outcomes and institutional reputation. Accessibility and Student Support Study abroad is often viewed as inaccessible, especially for students at regional universities who may come from lower-income backgrounds. For some of our […]

  • Editor’s Corner

    […] frequent turnover of faculty, staff, and especially, students. Ketchum argues that “digital humanities strategies such as distributed knowledge production, collaboration, multimodal creation and distribution, animating the archive, accessibility, and sustainability, curating of physical and virtual exhibitions at the same time works to overcome some of the root causes of institutional memory loss.” As she […]

  • Labors of love and organizing for solidarity within, across, and beyond the cultural industries

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    […] post, we share some of the highlights of the discussion: the political implications of the identity of “cultural worker”; common working conditions; how unionization supports diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI); and how we are imagining new kinds of organizing and ways of working. The panel discussion “Labors of Love and Organizing for Solidarity […]

  • Public History and Social Media

    […] Sex Work Historian Instagram account. Photo provided by Evania Pietrangelo-Porco With all this combined, my audience has come to understand my work by way of my sharing/ accessibility and my caring. On multiple occasions, both publicly and privately, I have been told my efforts are appreciated. I discuss silenced topics and actively include sex […]

  • National Council on Public History adopts statement of shared values

    […] documents that would work in tandem with the work of the Board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility. The shift from revising the existing code to creating a new values statement reflected the Governance Committee’s intent to affirm the values public historians hold across […]

  • Genealogy and the problem of biological essentialism

    […] genealogy in many ways can be described as “a democratization of access to the past.”   As a result of the new digital technology and the improved accessibility of public records, anyone with time and inclination can search for their ancestors in databases and online. People whose lives and fates are not part of […]

  • A new paradigm for institutional history? Looking at the Smithsonian Archives’ new website

    […] reach a somewhat larger academic audience when published as books. With the launch of its new website, the Smithsonian Institution Archives points toward a new era of accessibility and engagement for institutional archives. When I first visited the Smithsonian Archives almost a decade ago, the reading room and staff offices were located in the […]

  • Long Range Plan: Stewardship

    […] Over the next five years, NCPH will continue to increase the Endowment and Annual Funds while fundraising to support internal capacity and the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility work outlined in the Diversity pillar. In parallel with this work, volunteer committees will also be developing a plan to communicate with members about the state […]

  • New Frameworks for Evaluating Historic Properties

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    […] events, and stories that interest visitors) Community engagement (how the community interacts with the property) Collections (associated material culture or manuscripts) Potential visitation (considering location, interpretive themes, accessibility, and programming). And seven money-related criteria: Restricted endowments and trusts (many of the properties have restricted funds) Admission and program income Rental and other earned income Contributions/grants […]