One of the reasons for creating History@Work (and its predecessor, “Off the Wall“) was to contribute to discussion about peer review in public history–where it happens, what gets reviewed, how professional public historians might locate their critiques in dialogue with critical commentary outside the field, and whether traditional scholarly peer review can capture and respond to the increasingly wide range of projects and products that come under the heading of “public history”–everything from apps to tweets. Read More
Happy Groundhog Day, consulting historians and all followers of History@Work! Monday, February 4, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time will mark our fourth monthly NCPH Consultants TweetChat. This month, we will talk about what inspires us and how we keep in touch with a larger public history and consulting community. Read More
Happy New Year all you historians out in cyberspace! Tomorrow, Monday, January 7, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time will mark our third monthly NCPH Consultants TweetChat. This month, we will discuss the ins and outs of crafting a solid project proposal. Read More
Can you believe it’s been a whole month since our inaugural consultants’ TweetChat? Our second session is scheduled for this Monday, December 3, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This month, we will focus on that ever-elusive goal of the self-employed: time management! Read More
Next Monday, November 5, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the NCPH Consultants Committee will debut a new monthly feature for the public history consulting community: a TweetChat. Our preliminary TweetChat will return to a topic that helped launch our presence on HIstory@Work back in the spring.
In this election cycle, like just about every previous election cycle of recent memory, the role of higher education in improving society has been raised and debated. The past sixty years have seen unprecedented growth in the higher education sector, with a proliferation of for-profit and distance-learning options supplementing established research universities, liberal arts colleges, and community college programs. Read More
As a fledgling public history consultant and member of the NCPH Consultants’ Committee, I endeavored to attend as many sessions as I could that highlighted non-traditional areas in which historians have successfully contributed. The Historians in the Legal Arena session was, by far, one of the most compelling. Read More
These intriguing images, previewed in last week’s “In Search of a Label” post, depict a public artwork by Sheila Klein called “City Yard,” commissioned as part of the development of the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee in the 1990s. Read More
As the dust settles on a wonderful joint conference for NCPH and OAH, the editors of History@Work would like to introduce what we hope will become a semi-regular tradition. We invite you to clear your minds, open your eyes (or, in the future, perhaps your ears as well) and take a stab at responding to our first “In Search of a Label” post, offering your first impressions, free associations and guesses at significance. Read More
2012 is an ambitious year for NCPH, marking the launch of a true locus for our craft on the World Wide Web: the “History@Work” blog located on the new digital Public History Commons. Like the field of public history, this space will take advantage of every phase the Internet has to offer: its content delivery mechanisms will be multi-faceted, its content fluid, and its reach will encompass the entire cloud. Read More
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