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  • Around the Field May 22, 2024

    […] and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025 (call ends on September 22, 2024) LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES The American Historical Association will host a webinar, “The Wikipedia Assignment: How Students are Making History by Writing about the Past,” on May 23, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST NCPH will host a two-day, virtual workshop, Interpreting the […]

  • Around the Field May 8, 2024

    […] Sustainability: Evolving Beyond Your Institution’s Past to Influence Its Future,” on May 20, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:00 am EST The American Historical Association will host a webinar, “The Wikipedia Assignment: How Students are Making History by Writing about the Past,” on May 23, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST NCPH will host a two-day, virtual workshop, Interpreting […]

  • Generative AI and historical authority

    […] unease in our field about generative AI, but much of the coverage remains relatively optimistic. Why, then, should ChatGPT’s authoritative voice be a cause for concern? Where Wikipedia (first distrusted by our field but now seen as a useful tool for public historians) and Web 2.0  (the Internet’s twenty-first-century evolution to include two-way conversation and […]

  • Surfing with purpose: Online collections as exhibit resources (Part 2)

    […] is an easily-searchable repository of public-domain images. Helpful databases for images: Wikimedia Commons: Provides media files in the public domain and operates under the same principles as Wikipedia in that anyone can edit or upload. This repository gives options for downloading various resolutions, and it is easy to browse relevant images by topic.  For […]

  • Around the Field July 14, 2021

    […] Preservation Field School is offering field experience for students in Twin Lakes, Colorado, US, July 25-August 7, 2021 The American Women’s History Initiative is hosting a virtual Wikipedia edit-a-thon, “Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History,” July 27, 2021 The National Preservation Institute is offering virtual training of NAGPRA Grant Proposal Development, August 5 […]

  • City Yard: A memorial verb without an object

    […] Milwaukee in the 1990s. Information about the artwork and its history has proved elusive for an observer based outside of Milwaukee. I’ve had to rely on a Wikipedia “stub” for a basic description of the piece noting the media as: “landscape elements, limestone architectural ornament, and salvaged public works objects such as fire hydrants […]

  • All the news that fits: The view from where I sit

    Typesetter, John A. Prior Health Services Library mosaic mural, Columbus, Ohio. Photo credit: Ehschnell at en. wikipedia. For quite a number of years now, I’ve been one of the people involved in gathering and disseminating news about the public history field through the various channels of the National Council on Public History:  the H-Public […]

  • Around the Field February 20, 2019

    […] in the Colonial North” – NEH Teachers’ Institute 2019 – July 14-20, 2019, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US (applications due March 1, 2019) Hoosier Women in the Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Indiana Historical Bureau – March 1, 2019, Indianapolis, IN, US (registration now open) PUBLICATIONS Recently published by Routledge – Taylor and Francis Group: Museum […]

  • Digital Sandbox: Building a community of digital humanists

    […] American Religion, demonstrating how humanities research can be presented visually using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Another session encouraged participants to contribute edits to humanities articles on Wikipedia through a “nuts and bolts” training session. Participants gathering before a session at the Digital Sandbox workshop. Photo credit: Christine Crosby As with all projects, we […]

  • Around the Field September 5, 2018

    […] 12-13, 2018, San Francisco, CA, US (available livestreaming) Our Evolving Food System: from Slavery to Sovereignty symposium – Oct 17-18, 2018, Charlottesville, Virginia, US Second annual Canadian Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to be held Oct 24, 2018 AWARDS and FUNDING Inspirit Foundation’s ChangeUp Grants for Canadians working on projects that address issues of discrimination and prejudice […]