Author Archive
03 August 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Understanding places and approaches to the past at two U.K. conferences; audiovisual heritage in Washington, D.C.; new issue of Museum & Society on reimagining collections for diverse audiences Read More
02 August 2016 – editors
June 17, 2016 marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church, also known as Mother Emanuel, in Charleston, South Carolina. A new online exhibition published by the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), “A Tribute to the Mother Emanuel Church,” documents the outpouring of emotion and grief for the victims, survivors, and their families. Read More
18 July 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Conferences on war/peace transitions, Guatemalan genocide and resistance, migration heritage, more; residency funding for digital stewardship work; post-disaster collections salvage course; one-day workshop for teachers at historic site in Virginia. Read More
11 July 2016 – editors
The Chicago History Museum (CHM) and Breakthrough, a community-based organization that provides social services on Chicago’s West Side, have launched Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project. Focused on the 1970s to the present, this collaborative effort examines daily life in East Garfield Park, an African American neighborhood that has been marginalized in contemporary Chicago and neglected in the recent historical record. Read More
21 June 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Summer unconference on teaching with primary sources; new short-term travel awards to National Museum of American History for research on disability, gender/sexuality/LGBTQ, race; help with crowd-funding for cultural institutions. Read More
17 June 2016 – editors
Lynn C. Kronzek is a public historian and writer with over 30 years of executive experience directing her consulting practice, as well as successful nonprofit agencies and programs. She is an award-winning author of two books and numerous articles and reports, and for seven years she also taught graduate courses in regional development and community relations. Read More
14 June 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Diversifying Wikimedia, preventing looting, celebrating 50 years of the Oral History Association, and announcing a new continuing ed program in historic preservation at Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey. Read More
08 June 2016 – editors
On Monday, March 21, 2016 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia officially launched A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation, a new digital public history project that is the product of a multi-year, multi-institutional collaboration. This effort marks the beginning of a recollection of Liberia’s lost history and represents a very important step in reawakening the Liberian national consciousness. Read More
31 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic Proposal deadline is tomorrow for NCPH conference; edited volumes and special issues focusing on identity, memory, history, heritage conservation, gender in historical film and TV; 5th annual Cotton Kingdom Symposium in Mississippi and 40th anniversary of “Roots” in Connecticut; cultural heritage summer school in Bulgaria. Read More
23 May 2016 – editors
The Internet has changed the way nearly every profession shares knowledge and communicates with the public. In the last few years archivists and historians working for the federal government have joined the conversation. In December 2015, the National Archives created History Hub, a platform for collaboration between researchers, historians, archivists, and the federal government. Read More