With the support of a one-year Foundations planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the seven women’s colleges once known as the “Seven Sisters” recently launched College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education. College Women brings together digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs of women who attended Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University). Read More
What constitutes success for a public history graduate program? A strong placement record? Student mastery of a set of professional skills? Or perhaps cultivation of our discipline’s habits of mind?
One might say, “It depends”–on whom you ask, when you ask them, and why you want to know. Read More
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CFP: “Challenging the Exclusive Past” – National Council on Public History/Society for Historians in the Federal Government conference, March 16-19, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DEADLINE: July 15, 2015
Longer than the Olympics and arguably as prestigious, the most attended sporting event on earth is the Tour de France, which meanders through more than 2,000 miles of Europe’s most picturesque and challenging terrain. One cannot divorce the race from the surrounding cultural heritage and history. Read More
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ANNCT:HistoriCorps seeks volunteers for summer sessions working on restoration of slave quarters at Clermont Farm Slave Quarters, Berryville, Virginia, U.S.
CFP: “What does heritage change?” Association of Critical Heritage Studies third biannual Conference – June 7-10, 2016, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
DEADLINE: July 1, 2015
CFP: “Unsettling the Slave Narrative,” Biennial conference of C19: the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists – March 17-20, 2016, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. Read More
Gardens are personal. To some they are a way to grow food, to others a space of serene retreat, and to others still a background for celebrating culture and friendship. For many, they encompass a host of meanings and uses. How do we collect these ephemeral stories? Read More
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CFP: “Emerging Trends,” conference of ICOM International Committee of Marketing and Public Relations – Oct. 24-28, 2015, Yerevan, Armenia
EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 30, 2015
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With the support of a one-year Foundations planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the seven women’s colleges once known as the “Seven Sisters” recently launched College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education. College Women brings together digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs of women who attended Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University). Read More 