NCPH News, May 1, 2013 – Speed brake on the omnipresence of the past

03 May 2013 – editors

NEWS

• “A Speed-Brake on the Omnipresence of the Past.”  The New York Times’s Bill Keller on “Erasing History.”
• NEH Chairman Jim Leach to Resign. The ninth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be leaving effective the first week of May.
• Find A Map from Almost Any Time and Place Online. The Digital Public Library of America announces the addition of a  treasure trove of 38,000 historical maps from a private collection.
• Results of Humanities “Alt[ernative]-Ac[ademic]” Career Survey. “Some humanities disciplines, such as history, do have a strong tradition in public engagement; public history is a well-developed sub-discipline….”
• Resources for the Consulting Historian.  “After discussions at the 2013 NCPH conference… I’ve decided to aggregate those resources into a list so that others with similar questions have a ‘jumping off’ point as they start explore the private sector for themselves.”

NCPH

• Consultants’ Monthly TweetChat. Monday, May 6, at 4pm Eastern.  The topic will be “International Perspectives in Consulting.”  Instructions for participating are here.
• Beginning to Make a DIF.  We announced a Digital Integration Fund (DIF) during the NCPH annual meeting and are asking for your support.  Help us make a DIF!  The fund will support History@Work and the continuing creation of a lively central gathering-place for practitioners, scholars, and their many publics and expand the possibilities for peer review.
• Fired Up about the Public History Field?  Suggest good people for next year’s NCPH election slate!
• More Photos from Ottawa Meeting.  We’ve added new images to the Flickr page for the NCPH annual meeting.  We encourage you to share your own images from the conference on the NCPH Facebook page or by tweeting using the #NCPH2013 hashtag.
• Calling All Autopsy Witnesses.   If you attended Public Plenary speaker Dr. Vittorio Marchis’s autopsy of a telephone at the Ottawa meeting and took home a piece, please consider sending a photo of yourself holding your prize (email [email protected]). We’d like to reassemble the telephone virtually by grouping the parts.