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  • Editor’s Corner: Complicating Authority

    […] greatly improved the journal during her five years working with us. She has especially pushed The Public Historian to give greater attention to issues of disability and accessibility. We will miss her and wish her the best. ~Sarah H. Case, the editor of The Public Historian, earned her MA and Ph.D. in history at […]

  • Outstanding public history project award: Histories of the National Mall

    […] increase in site traffic each month. The results of our design and outreach decisions suggest Histories of the National Mall has struck the right balance between the accessibility of the mobile-first design and the engaging historical content and interpretation. Woven together, these elements create a digital public history project that will enrich the experience […]

  • Professional opportunities Nov. 18, 2014

    […] proposals for papers and teacher workshops – Sept. 24-25, 2015, Springfield, Illinois, U.S. DEADLINE: March 11, 2015 EDU: “Access…Beyond the Ramp” webinar on planning for and integrating accessibility within Ontario’s heritage and museum community – Nov. 25, 2014 FUNDING: Final call for 2015-2016 Lemelson Center Fellowships, Smithsonian Institution, supporting projects that present creative approaches […]

  • History by design: a public historian in the creative field

    […] telling good history as a zero-sum game, but as a public historian I am empowered to make interpretive decisions that reflect the values of our field: inclusion, accessibility, and responsible scholarship. Ultimately, an exhibit exists to help the visitor make meaning out of what’s in front of them, and design is the process of […]

  • Join Us in a Dream: A National Museum of Disability History and Culture

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    […] Artifact History of Disability in America. Other federal institutions such as the National Park Service have developed online disability history resources. Funders are paying more attention to accessibility, too. We would like to build on the existing work of academic and public historians, as well as advocates, to raise disability history’s profile and make […]

  • Getting started in the digital humanities: a resource guide

    […] Nebraska’s Center for Digital Research in Humanities, and IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Center make it possible and accessible to self-teach digital method literacy. This accessibility also means that scholars who have avoided learning digital methods no longer have an excuse not to learn—something that I am guilty of as well. While […]

  • New NCPH Grassroots Award to Support Non-Traditional Public Historians

    […] join us if they can. Keep these colleagues informed of our initiatives, including this award, and nominate them when the time comes. This award is place-based for accessibility and for practical reasons. In this first year of the award, with the annual meeting originally scheduled to take place in Montreal, Quebec, the prize will […]

  • Editor’s Corner: new representations, new truths

    […] Rachelle Meinecke, Lisa Parcell, and Jay M. Price, realized that renovating it into a Pizza Hut Museum could provide an opportunity to examine entrepreneurship, university-business collaboration, and accessibility in design and interpretation. Further, by providing cultural and social interpretation, the museum “also offered an opportunity to bring a humanities presence to a space that […]

  • Experiencing the pivot: building a virtual internship program (Part II)

    […] appeal of her Adobe Spark page. She also enjoyed having the opportunity to translate a Holocaust story from English to Spanish, “which means I’m taking steps toward accessibility, something I value in all fields.” Alejandra Gonzalez-Calvo, intern for the MHHE, translated stories about the Holocaust from English to Spanish. Image credit: Alejandra Gonzalez-Calvo Collerton […]

  • Experiencing the pivot: building a virtual internship program (Part I)

    […] response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The content of this post is based on responses to questions posed by MHHE curator Adina Langer to MHHE education program coordinator, accessibility specialist, and internship coordinator Tyler Crafton-Karnes. Part I In March 2020, the Museum of History and Holocaust Education (MHHE), located in Kennesaw, Georgia, had two student […]