15 January 2015 – Steven Anderson 2
Recently I attended two “Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.” The name evoked images of committed scholars and students gathered together to pursue an all-nighter that would generate scores of new articles, hundreds of meaningful edits. What actually transpired was the opportunity to address questions of public history and online scholarly identity. Read More
14 January 2015 – Cathy Stanton
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AWARD: J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2015 award.
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2015
CFP: Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2015) @ IUI Conference – March 29-April 1, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Read More
13 January 2015 – Andrea Burns 9
In 2002, Richard Moe, then president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), asked a troubling question in the Forum Journal: “Are There Too Many House Museums?”[1] Subsequent publications, conferences, and other forums have debated and reiterated Moe’s concerns that house museums are–besides facing dismal financial straits–too often “tired, antiquated, and disconnected from their communities.”[2] Read More
09 January 2015 – Cathy Stanton 1
The killings at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris this week have prompted a passionate defense around the world of political cartoons as free speech, a form of journalistic expression that exemplifies (and occasionally pushes the boundaries of) a free press’s role as critic and gadfly. Read More
08 January 2015 – Angela Thorpe
employment, training, race, graduate students, new professionals, public engagement, education, profession
This is the final post in a series on issues of diversity in the public history field. You can find the previous posts in the series here.
As public historians, we have many responsibilities, but, as a baseline, we are charged with making history relevant, meaningful, and accessible to amateur historians, students, families, and scholars alike. Read More
07 January 2015 – editors
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CFP: “Looking Backwards, Thinking Forwards,” Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property conference – May 26-30, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2015
CFP: Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: current research areas, challenges and specificity – Sept. Read More
06 January 2015 – Leo Vazquez 3
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, urban planning
Editor’s note: The National Historic Preservation Act will turn 50 in 2016. While this is a time to celebrate how the NHPA has transformed public history, it’s also an appropriate moment to convene a national conversation on the Act, its legacy, and its future. Read More
18 December 2014 – Ciara Cronin
From art museums collecting Instagram posts for mobile photography exhibits to natural history museums getting visitors to actively participate in digitizing their collections or museums using crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Causevox to raise funds for special projects and exhibits, crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly prevalent in heritage and cultural institutions. Read More
17 December 2014 – editors
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CFP: The peer-reviewed, digital-first Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is expanding and seeks qualified writers to cover new subject categories.
CFP: The Centre for English Traditional Heritage seeks contributors for its next issue. Read More
16 December 2014 – Adina Langer 2
Almost exactly four months ago, I relocated from Lansing, Michigan, to Atlanta, Georgia. Although both are capital cities, Lansing and Atlanta have little else in common. I traded the Midwestern winter and speedy grid-like roadways for mild autumn breezes through dense tree-cover and much-to-be-avoided traffic-choked interstates. Read More