Author Archive
11 December 2013 – editors
ANNCT: The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces the launch of its new website, the Home for History.
ANNCT: The Public Consultation on splitting English Heritage into two organisations has been initiated. There will be a public event on Jan. Read More
27 November 2013 – editors
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.
~ Christine Arato, Chief Historian, National Park Service, Northeast Region
After Imperiled Promise landed with something of a magnificent thud almost two years ago, I liken the NPS response to a progression along the five stages of grief articulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. Read More
27 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Public Interest Declassification Board seeks input about what the U.S. government should prioritize for declassification. Current topic is records 25 years or younger with more topics to follow over the next month.
ANNCT: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts and University of Pennsylvania Libraries launch series of infographic posters on preservation terms and guidelines
Visit website for first poster, focusing on temperature and relative humidity
ANNCT: Recent and upcoming from BackStory Radio: American Oratory, Conspiracy Thinking, A History of Scandal
ANNCT: “Museums, Politics and Power” blog and conversation about those issues as a lead-up to tri-national conference in St. Read More
25 November 2013 – editors
Continued from Part 1
~ Seth Bruggeman, Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Public History, Temple University
I’ve been fortunate to have had several points of contact with the Imperiled Promise report since its release, from attending early conference sessions with its authors to being a conversation facilitator myself and, most recently, speaking about where it may lead the NPS’s history program. Read More
22 November 2013 – editors 2
Editor’s Note: On November 6, 2013, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers University-Camden convened a public forum to explore the changing presentation of history in US national parks. The gathering took as its starting point the 2011 report “Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Parks,” which has sparked other similar conversations over the past year and a half (for example, this one a year ago in Boston). Read More
20 November 2013 – editors
CFP: “Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Risk Taking in Living History,” Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums 2014 Annual Meeting, June 21-25, 2014, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2013
CFP: “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Memory after the Atomic Bombings to Present” – seeking contributors for interdisciplinary anthology
DEADLINE: Dec. Read More
13 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Mystic Seaport seeks volunteers to participate in an exciting public-history project onboard the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan.
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED: Dec. 1-31, 2013
CFP: Submission Extension for “Local Histories and the Social Imagination” theme issue of the Cadernos, journal of the Memorial Centre of Western Santa Cataraina, Brazil
DEADLINE: Nov. Read More
06 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Book talk and reception with editors and contributors, “Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice,” Nov. 18, 2013, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Information and RSVP via Facebook event page
AWARD: New public outreach award from American Society for Environmental History for public outreach project relating to environmental public history
DEADLINE: Dec. Read More
30 October 2013 – editors
AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government Invites Nominations for the 2014 John Wesley Powell Prize for historic preservation projects.
DEADLINE: Nov. 29, 2013
CFP: “Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century,” July 6-8, 2014, Melbourne, Australia
DEADLINE: Oct. Read More
23 October 2013 – editors
AWARD: The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2014 Thomas Jefferson Prize for research tools aid (e.g., inventory, index, finding aid, biographical directory, bibliography) published in 2012 or 2013.
DEADLINE: Nov. 15, 2013
CFP: Historical Encounters | New History Education Journal is a new open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of historical consciousness, historical cultures, and history education. Read More