29 January 2015 – Jason Steinhauer 12
advocacy, public engagement, media, publicity, archives, education, profession, training, conference
Just as science has Science Communicators, I’ve proposed that history needs History Communicators. The idea of History Communicators, and how public historians may fill these roles, will be discussed in a panel at the National Council on Public History annual meeting in Nashville. Read More
28 January 2015 – editors
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AWARD: The Society of American Archivists invites nominations for the 2015 Spotlight Award recognizing “the contributions of individuals who work for the good of the archives profession and of archival collections, and whose work would not typically receive public recognition.” Read More
27 January 2015 – Sarah Hudson
As a graduate student of public history who specializes in early America, I spend a lot of time thinking about borders and peripheries, not just the temporal and spatial borders of British North America, but the figurative borders within which the “traditional” American experience is circumscribed. Read More
22 January 2015 – Kate Preissler 2
Note from the author: I wrote this piece before the conclusion of the investigative journalism podcast Serial dropped on December 18, 2014. I’m leaving it as is, without addressing the ending because it does not change the questions that were raised during its run, nor does it negate the ways we can discuss Serial in relation to public history. Read More
21 January 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: Public History Discussion Group presents “Love thy neighbour: inter-neighbour relations and the syntax of complaint in early C20th London,” a talk by Anna Robinson, University of East London – Jan. Read More
20 January 2015 – Matthew Barlow 5
The field of public history has a long history of its own in Canada. The first programme was founded at the University of Waterloo in Ontario in 1983 (though it has since been disbanded), and the University of Western Ontario followed suit in 1986. Read More
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