Author Archive
02 August 2018 – editors
Anna Gibson Holloway is the former maritime historian for the Maritime Heritage Program of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Previously she was the vice president of collections and programs, as well as curator, of the USS Monitor Center at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Read More
25 July 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the National Council on Public History’s 2019 Call for Posters is now open through October; the National Women’s History Museum is hosting a fellowship in Education and Public History; registration is now open for the “What is Public History Now” workshop at University College London; the Center for Reconciliation is holding the “An American Citizen” program on July 26. Read More
11 July 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Session and workshop proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are due Sunday, July 15; applications for the Smithsonian’s Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) fellowships also due July 15; registration is now open for the Slave Dwelling Project conference; upcoming workshops on Charleston monuments aimed at a local teenage audience (July 12, 17, and 19); De Gruyter seeks online peer review on the text Public History and Schools by next week. Read More
20 June 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are available for comment through July 1; the South Asian American Digital Archive is seeking applicants to join its inaugural Archivists’ Collective; the deadline for the “Digital Hermeneutics in History” conference has been extended to June 30; AASLH presents “Speaking Truth to Power: Why Transparency and Accountability Matter” webinar on June 27. Read More
06 June 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are now available for comment; Funding is available the 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums; The Oral History Center is offering an Advanced Oral History Summer Institute (Aug 6-10); Twenty-four articles from The Public Historian are available free for the rest of the year; Berghahn is releasing several new books in the “Making Sense of History Series” Read More
23 May 2018 – editors 1
From around the field this week: Join the International Sites of Conscience to talk about Museums and Guns at tomorrow’s Twitter #MuseumEdChat (May 24); @NCPHInclusion task force member Shakti Castro gives a talk on the history of the opioid crisis in NYC’s Puerto Rican and Latinx communities (May 24); Historic New England is hosting a “Caring for Municipal, Museum, and other Non-Profit Historic Properties” workshop in Massachusetts (May 25); Submit a pop-up proposal for the COSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Meeting by May 31; June is Pride Month in the United States, and many cultural organizations are featuring LGBTQ history events and talks. Read More
09 May 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for NCPH 2019 are due on June 1 for feedback and offers of collaboration; several NEH grant applications are due in the next few weeks; upcoming workshops from AASLH, the Pennsylvania State Archives, Queens University Belfast, and others. Read More
25 April 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Virginia Tech is hosting a V.E. Day Transcribe-a-Thon; Fort Negley is premiering their Fort Negley Descendents Project oral histories in Nashville this Saturday the 28th; nominations will be due soon for the AHA’s awards; several summer workshops and institutes are now accepting applications. Read More
04 April 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: PubComm 2018 (Public History Community Forum on Racism and Resistance) is tomorrow, April 5, in Philadelphia; “Reap the Whirlwind: A Holistic Approach to Museum Internships” webinar from the Virginia Association of Museums, is next Monday, April 9; AASLH’s Call for Posters for their 2018 meeting (an event sponsored by NCPH) is now open through June 10; The Public Historian is open-access for the month of April. Read More
21 March 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is holding its spring business meeting, open to the public, on March 22; the Newport Historical Society and Rhode Island Historical Society are hosting the public history panel “Myth, Memory, History and Heritage” on March 23; sign up now for a March 24 workshop on 18th century women’s clothing in Baltimore; the AASLH’s online course on Museum Education and Outreach starts March 26. Read More