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    Practicing public history on Wikipedia

    […] part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Madeline Hellmich is the winner of a graduate student travel award.  The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which launched in 2001, is the seventh-most visited website in the world. While Wikipedia has arguably become the universal place to go for information about any […]
  • Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University">

    Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University

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    […] public history placement at York University in Toronto, Canada. The authors, Alanna Brown and Leena Hussein, are profiled at the end of the piece. Screenshot from the Wikipedia “History of Caribana” page edited as a part of the Black History edit-a-thon that the authors participated in during their public history placement at York University. […]
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    Editing in public: Online identity and the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

    Recently I attended two “ Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.” The name evoked images of committed scholars and students gathered together to pursue an all-nighter that would generate scores of new articles, hundreds of meaningful edits. What actually transpired was the opportunity to address questions of public history and online scholarly identity. Academics and library professionals have a wealth […]

  • History museums in a wiki world

    This January Wikipedia will be celebrating its ten year anniversary, and it’s safe to say that in the past decade the editable encyclopedia has challenged the academic and cultural sectors in a number of ways. A recent post on Off the Wall has already discussed the shifting role that Wikipedia plays in academia, specifically […]
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    Project Showcase: Hoosier Women in STEM Wikipedia edit-a-thon

    Indiana University students at work during the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Photo Credit: Sam Opsahl. In October 2017, historians, librarians, scientists, and members of the general public gathered at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis for the Hoosier Women in STEM Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Hoosiers are inventors, creators and innovators. From the development of TV to the […]

  • Connecting Clues on the Trail of a Century-Old Black Women’s Club

    […] (preferring, for instance, handwritten letters and rules of decorum as modeled by their forebears) of yesterday, but they also revealed their desire for one modern thing: a Wikipedia entry about the history of their club. I was eager to offer what I could for this enterprise, most importantly, the talent of my students. I […]

  • Should everything have a history button?

    On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography: This particular book—or rather, set of books—is every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, The Iraq War, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages. It amounts to twelve volumes: the size […]

  • Moms at the myth (Part 2)

    The Wikipedia entry that started the authors’ search, captured on February 17, 2013. Screenshot by the authors. Continued from Part 1 Our suspicions about the too-great-to-be-true Moms at the “Mich” album cover led us back to the Wikipedia entry that had started our quest for details about this little-known moment in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, […]

  • Around the Field September 27, 2017

    From around the field this week: Apply for an AASLH mini-grant for hurricane assistance by October 10; sign up for Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons in Indiana and across Canada; deadlines are imminent or approaching for conferences in Illinois, Virginia, California, and Granada, Spain; Register for next month’s Design for Diversity opening forum at Northeastern University; Rowman & […]

  • Schip-Shaip

      Editor’s note: This piece is part one of a special online section accompanying issue 37(2) of The Public Historian, guest edited by Lisa Junkin Lopez, which focuses on the future of historic house museums. The contributions in this section highlight the voices of artists who engage with historic house museums as sites of research, exhibition, and social practice. […]