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New issue of The Public Historian

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A new issue of The Public Historian will be appearing in libraries and subscribers’ mailboxes soon.  Below is an advance look at the Table of Contents:

The Public Historian
A Journal of Public History
Volume 35    February 2013     Number 4

Editor’s Corner
The Past Enhanced, Endowed, Engaged
Randolph Bergstrom

Roundtable
Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
William Bryans, Albert Camarillo, Swati Chattopadhyay, Jon Christensen, Sharon Leon, and Cathy Stanton

Public History and Public Humanities: State Humanities Councils
Public Works: NEH, Congress, and the State Humanities Councils
Jamil Zainaldin
Making the Humanities Public:  The Example of Connecticut’s Humanities Council
Briann Greenfield

Digital History at Historic Sites
#VirtualTourist: Embracing Our Audience through Public History Web Experience
Anne Lindsay

Crossing Borders: Conversations on the War of 1812 Bicentennial Online and in Print
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The War Of 1812 In Canada And The United States In 2012
Karim M. Read More

Professional opportunities March 5, 2013

ANNCT: New online resource, “American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922” from New-York Historical Society

CFP: 9th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers Conference, April 12-13, 2013, State University of New York Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 8, 2013

CFP: The Sixth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, April 22-24, 2013, National Art Gallery of Denmark, Kunst, Denmark SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22, 2013

CONF: Oral History and Institutional History – The Warwick Project “The Voice of the Past” Part 2, March 12, 2013, University of Warwick, UK

CONF: Public History in the Digital Age, April 4-5, 2013, National Archives at College Park, Maryland, U.S. Read More

NCPH News and conference updates Feb. 28, 2013

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NEWS

2013 NCPH Election Results Elected to the Board of Directors were Denise Meringolo (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jill Ogline Titus (Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College), and Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Elected to the Nominating Committee: Priya Chhaya (National Trust for Historic Preservation) and Patricia West (National Park Service). Read More

NCPH News and Conference Updates Feb. 13, 2013

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New Editors Join The Public Historian. The editorial team of The Public Historian (TPH) will grow this spring to include a co-editor and two international consulting editors. NCPH and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have signed an agreement with Rutgers University-Camden, which is creating a new staff position for a Public Historian in Residence whose primary responsibility will be to serve as TPH co-editor. Read More

Professional opportunities Feb. 12, 2013

AWARD:  Southwestern Oral History Awards and Scholarships
APPLICATION DEADLINE:  February 15, 2013

AWARD:  The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2013 Leadership in History Awards.
NOMINATIONS DEADLINE:  March 1, 2013

CFP:  International Committee on Management 2013 Conference – Museums and Human Rights, August 13-15, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  March 8, 2013

CFP: Other Archives, Other Souths – Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Modern Language Association 2014 Conference, Jan. Read More