At the third annual “lightning talks” session highlighting new (and some not so new) digital public history projects at the National Council on Public History conference, a dozen presenters showed off their work to a lunchtime audience.
Nathan Brown, digital projects librarian at New Mexico State University, showed the work the library has done in digitizing historical materials from the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In a television interview last year, American writer and neo-agrarian icon Wendell Berry spoke about the “dreadful situation” facing young people who are grappling with the cascading environmental, economic, and social challenges linked with runaway capitalism and anthropogenic climate change. Read More
A draft version of Kate Preissler and Craig Langlois’s March 10 post “Free-range kids: Museums at play” was posted in error, and has now been replaced by the updated, correct version. We apologize for the error and hope that those who were intrigued by the piece will revisit it! Read More
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 listserv, the News Feed here in the Public History Commons, and the regular emailed updates that go out to NCPH members. Read More
ANNCT:Museums Advocacy Day 2014, Feb. 24-25 in Washington, D.C., is the prime opportunity for museums to make their case on Capitol Hill and your participation will provide an invaluable service to both your museum and your museum colleagues nationwide. Read More
Google “public history” and “climate change” and you’ll quickly realize that public historians are only just beginning to talk about how their work relates to the increasingly urgent questions posed by the earth’s rapidly changing climate. You could make a case that environmental public history is itself still in its infancy, even though it’s been more than two decades since Martin Melosi, in his President’s Annual Address to the National Council on Public History, issued a call for “environmental history [to] be a means to make the value of history better understood to the public.”[1] Read More
AWARD: Free webinar for potential applications to learn about American Association for State and Local History’s Leadership in History awards, Jan. 9, 2014, 2-3 p.m. eastern time PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
CFP: Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes essays from all academic fields such as art history, anthropology, and ethnic studies, seeks articles for its second and subsequent issues
CFP: Oral History Society Annual Conference – Community Voices, July 18-19, 2014 (Note new dates), Manchester, U.K. Read More
Purchasing carbon offsets, as most people probably know by now, involves giving a company an amount based on the carbon generated by your own activities. The company then invests the money in projects—building renewable energy projects, reforestation, energy efficiency measures, etc.—that Read More
Beginning tomorrow, the weekly Public History News Update (PHNU) emails from the National Council on Public History will be sent only to NCPH members. So if you’re a non-member who has found these regular messages a handy source of public history information, now is a good time to think about joining NCPH. Read More
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