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Michael Mizell-Nelson

Leapfrogging over politics with a mobile historical app?

16 May 2012 – Michael Mizell-Nelson 3

digital media, preservation, projects, advocacy, digital history, memory, environment, government, politics

The Southern landscape and many other parts of the United States remain pockmarked with state historical markers that demand reinterpretation or removal. One state historical marker noting the failure of New Orleans’ 17^th Street Canal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina demonstrates that Louisiana has landed on the right side of this history. Read More

Work in progress: Public History Career Resource

28 March 2012 – Michael Mizell-Nelson 1

projects, digital history, media, profession, training, graduate students, new professionals, conference

I am always happy to discover how often new media scholarship benefits traditional research as well as public history practice. My recent experience with one particular online project using Zotero demonstrates how new media innovation can invigorate our classroom instruction in unexpected ways. Read More

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Advocacy is not a choice
13 January 2025 – Denise Meringolo
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Editor’s note: This post was published in Volume 44 Number 4 of Public History News, NCPH’s quarterly newsletter. It is cross-posted here in response to History@Work‘s current Special Call for posts on “advocacy in the field.” During this past election year there was a predictable uptick in the number of opinion pieces regarding historians’ work as public intellectuals, particularly as political commentators. Read More

Michael Mizell-Nelson

Leapfrogging over politics with a mobile historical app?

Work in progress: Public History Career Resource

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