16 July 2019 – Katie Stringer Clary
After moving to a new state and leaving a position as Executive Director of Blount Mansion, a historic house museum, I joined the academic world as an adjunct teaching associate in the history department at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Read More
11 July 2019 – Katherine Crawford-Lackey
advocacy, collaboration, digital media, gender/sexuality, government, LGBTQ history, The Public Historian, TPH 41.2
Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two [email protected] pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2.
When the National Park Service (NPS) released a groundbreaking theme study on LGBTQ America in October 2016, I read (and re-read) each chapter, fascinated by what the authors revealed about the influence of queer culture in American history. Read More
10 July 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: History Relevance Initiative seeks feedback on new guiding framework; submissions are due for two prizes from MARAC and the Western History Association; proposals for NCPH 2020 are due next Monday, July 15; applications are now open for the second cohort of DC Public Library’s Memory Lab Network. Read More
09 July 2019 – Melissa Barthelemy 1
art, gender, gender/sexuality, graduate students, LGBTQ history, media, methods, public engagement, social justice, speech, The Public Historian, TPH 41.2
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two [email protected] pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2.
For many of us in the queer and trans communities, the election of Donald J. Read More
04 July 2019 – David Rotenstein 1
advocacy, art, collaboration, community history, historic preservation, Immigration, National Historic Preservation Act
Jack Schmitt has mixed feelings about the way that the Pennsylvania Route 28 project turned out. On one hand, the longtime Pittsburgh historic preservation advocate beams when he talks about how he successfully convinced the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to replicate historic Pennsylvania Canal lock stones in a retaining wall in the urban highway corridor. Read More
02 July 2019 – Tyler Rudd Putman
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I’ve been reflecting on the work of journalist Tony Horwitz, who died suddenly on May 27th. Horwitz’s 1998 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, had a profound impact on American popular culture, public history, and on my own personal and professional life. Read More
27 June 2019 – Yvonne Clayton, Melissa Keeling, Kathleen Melgar, Jennifer Souder, and Charles Trott
African American history, Black museums series, commemoration, music, race, The Public Historian, TPH 40.3
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a [email protected] series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More
26 June 2019 – Meghan Hillman
From around the field this week: NCPH joins AASLH, OAH, and Frameworks Institute on Mellon Foundation grant; the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Projects Funding applications are due August 14; the Indiana Historical Society has some upcoming free webinars to put on your calendar. Read More
25 June 2019 – Adina Langer 2
Since we launched [email protected] in 2012, we have been thinking seriously about the role of tags in navigating the site and improving our readers’ experiences. Tags are terms related to a post’s content that can be used to link that post in the blog’s back-end database to other posts about similar themes. Read More
20 June 2019 – Rachel Gross
Every week throughout the summer, small groups of residents of Missoula, Montana, meet at Caras Park near downtown for history tours called “Unseen Missoula.” One important contributor to the development of the tour program has been the public history students of the University of Montana. Read More