11 November 2014 – editors
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CFP: 13th Annual Arizona Historic Preservation Conference – May 13-15, 2015, Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.
DEADLINE: Nov. 14, 2014
CFP: Traditions & Transitions: Independent Scholars and the Digital Landscape – June 19-21, 2015, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Read More
10 November 2014 – Pete Anderson 4
Academic careers are hard to come by these days. Public historians will not be surprised by the posts on the active #altac hashtag on Twitter or the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) recent “White Paper on the Future of the PhD in the Humanities” that observed that only between 10 and 15 percent of those who enter PhD programs will be employed at a post-secondary institution [1]. Read More
06 November 2014 – Mary Rizzo 1
Continued from Part 1
Our suspicions about the too-great-to-be-true Moms at the “Mich” album cover led us back to the Wikipedia entry that had started our quest for details about this little-known moment in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) history. Read More
04 November 2014 – editors
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EDU: Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics – May 27, 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EDU: Ruskin College MA in Public History continues Ruskin mission of extending education to new and returning adult learners
PUB: Journal of the History of Collections (Vol. Read More
03 November 2014 – Harry Klinkhamer 14
A while ago I received an e-mail from SciStarter. I had signed up on its Web site to look for research opportunities where I live. No, I wasn’t searching for a chance to do a report on the history of science but rather to see what science research projects needed help in my area. Read More
30 October 2014 – Mary Rizzo 4
There are layers of history contained in the album cover for Moms at the “Mich.” Jackie “Moms” Mabley’s career ran from the queer Harlem comedy clubs of the 1920s to early race films, from the mid-century “chitlin’ circuit” to the family-friendly late-career movie Amazing Grace (1974). Read More
28 October 2014 – editors
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AWARD: OAH-NPS Excellence in a National Park Service History Project Award
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2014
AWARD: The Public History Prize is open to third and fourth year university students in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory who are studying history (both Australian and international) and whose research paper or project engages with the field and practice of professional and public history. Read More
27 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
projects, evaluation, advocacy, public engagement, digital history, publicity, education, politics, race, graduate students, digital media, The Public Historian, preservation, slavery
In the final post of this series, we consider how the “Slavery at South Carolina College” project has been received. The most important effects have been local. The website has acted as a catalyst that has increased awareness of slavery at the university and an interest among students and faculty in speaking plainly about that history. Read More
24 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
human rights, politics, race, graduate students, The Public Historian, slavery, digital media, projects, digital history, memory, sense of place
Continued from Part 1.
As well as trying to convey a sense of these enslaved workers as people, the team of graduate students working on the “Slavery at South Carolina College” website also sought to connect this history to the physical landscape. Read More
22 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
race, graduate students, The Public Historian, digital media, slavery, projects, digital history, memory, archives, scholarship, education, human rights
Written on the landscape of the University of South Carolina is an untold yet well-documented story of slavery. Enslaved people constructed the buildings of the university’s antebellum predecessor, South Carolina College, attended to the wants of white students and faculty, and performed countless tasks essential to running the college. Read More