Author Archive
14 October 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: PreservationDirectory.com announces the addition of over 800 educational programs to their comprehensive array of resources
CFP: A Small Symposium on Athens as Archive and Arrow to the Future – June 1-4, 2015, Athens, Greece
DEADLINE: Nov. Read More
07 October 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: 2014 New Jersey Forum with keynote address by Spencer Crew on “The Rugged Road to Citizenship: New Jersey’s Response to Newcomers from the American Revolution to the Present” – Nov. Read More
30 September 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: New BackStory radio episodes on police/community relations, Americans and wilderness, and more
CFP: Historians Against Slavery Conference: Anti-Sexual Slavery Campaigns – Sept. 24-27, 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Read More
23 September 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: Archives Week events in New Jersey
AWARD: Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award from the Organization of American Historians
DEADLINE: Oct. 1, 2014
CFP: “Roots/Heritage Tourism in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies for a Comparative Approach” – Feb. Read More
11 September 2014 – editors
Recently, Jane Becker initiated a conversation about doing collaborative projects with students and community partners on the public history educators’ listserv. An edited and condensed version of the discussion follows.
Jane Becker: For the past few years, I have developed collaborative projects for my public history graduate students to undertake with community partners. Read More
10 September 2014 – editors
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AWARD: Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research
DEADLINE: Nov. 3, 2014
CFP: Future Museum: an Asian Perspective – Oct. 28, 2014, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
DEADLINE: Sept. Read More
03 September 2014 – editors
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CFP: Special journal issue of Synoptique, “Re-Viewing the Moving Image Archive for the 21st Century – Out of the Dark Stacks and Into the Light”
DEADLINE: Oct. Read More
03 September 2014 – editors
Conference-goers at the National Council on Public History’s annual meeting in Monterey, California, last March were given an advance look at a digital anthology compiled to complement the conference theme of “Sustainable Public History.” Containing some materials from this blog, some from previous conference working groups focusing on environmental issues, and some new materials, the anthology, called “Public History in a Changing Climate,” was an effort to gather together some of the threads of what is still an emergent discussion within the field. Read More
27 August 2014 – editors
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CFP: 11th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference welcomes proposals from public history and digital humanities – Nov. 15, 2014, Chicago, Illinois, US
DEADLINE: Sept. 8, 2014
CFP: “Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures” – July 8-10, 2015, Paris, France
SUBMIT PROPOSALS Aug. Read More
19 August 2014 – editors
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CFP: The Social Value of Museums: Inspiring Change (American Alliance for Museums conference) – April 26-29, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DEADLINE to start session proposals: Aug. 25, 2014
CFP: “Anniversaries,” 2015 Virginia Forum – March 12-14, 2015, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. Read More