Author Archive
29 March 2016 – editors
“The Middle: Where did we come from? Where are we going?”
CALL FOR PAPERS – 2017 Annual Meeting National Council on Public History
Indianapolis, Indiana, April 19-22, 2017 Read More
28 March 2016 – editors
Jeff Sellers serves as the curator of education at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, TN, and has been there since 2005. He is past-president of the Inter-museum Council of Nashville and currently serves on the National Council On Public History New Professional Award Committee. Read More
25 March 2016 – editors 1
A personal perspective on the Flint water crisis
My thoughts on the Flint water crisis stem from a personal perspective, as well as my academic interests in deindustrialization, African American history, and heritage tourism. When I was two years old, my dad was offered a job as a reference librarian at the University of Michigan-Flint. Read More
22 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history boot camps in Camden, New Jersey; Iraq conference on heritage in conflict zones; oral history research grants; almost-all-expenses-paid opportunity to attend summer Yale Public History Institute Read More
21 March 2016 – editors
Jennifer Stevens, PhD, is principal, SHRA/Stevens Historical Research Associates. Jennifer attended University of California-Davis for graduate school and now resides in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and two children. She founded SHRA in 2004 and is a graduate affiliate faculty member in the History Department at Boise State University, where she periodically teaches courses in Environmental and Urban History. Read More
14 March 2016 – editors
Are you a public historian on the tenure track? Do you sit on a tenure and promotion committee, or are you asked to write letters in support of T&P candidates? Do you find yourself working to explain the scholarly nature of public history scholarship to a broader academic audience? Read More
08 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Truth and lies in Ontario; gravestones and cemetery monuments in Illinois; and a slew of new books and journals. Read More
04 March 2016 – editors
Environmental Racism and Lead Poisoning in Flint
I study environmental justice movements, both contemporary and historical. Lead (along with asthma) has been a central urban environmental health issue in the US that hits racial minorities and working-class people particularly hard. Lead is often thought of, for that reason, as an example of environmental racism. Read More
01 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history posters in Bogotà, conference on slave dwellings in South Carolina, reflecting on collections in Manchester, U.K. and preserving/promoting them with National Endowment for the Humanities grants Read More
16 February 2016 – editors
From around the field this week:
Summer workshops in Berlin and Lviv on Eastern European Jewish histories and German Holocaust archives; automotive heritage in Pennsylvania; colliding stories at Missouri Conference on History; workshop in Kansas for religious communities interested in creating archives. Read More