21 October 2014 – editors
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CFP: Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora on “Afro-Brazilian Citizenship and the Politics of History”
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Nov. 15, 2014
CFP: “The Caring Museum,” edited by Hamish Robertson – forthcoming book from MuseumsEtc. Read More
16 October 2014 – David Rotenstein 1
In 2007 Atlanta journalist Nathan McCall’s novel Them was published. The book is a fictionalized account of a very real Atlanta neighborhood–the Old Fourth Ward–undergoing gentrification. The neighborhood is a place where civil rights historic landmarks jockey for attention and dollars among hip bars and restaurants. Read More
14 October 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: PreservationDirectory.com announces the addition of over 800 educational programs to their comprehensive array of resources
CFP: A Small Symposium on Athens as Archive and Arrow to the Future – June 1-4, 2015, Athens, Greece
DEADLINE: Nov. Read More
14 October 2014 – Will Walker
Last Thursday, the US Supreme Court and a federal district court issued separate rulings striking down voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Texas. The Texas ruling should be of particular interest to public historians because of the extent to which history is at the center of US District Court Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos’s decision. Read More
09 October 2014 – Abby Curtin 6
Currently, public history educators are discussing whether their graduate students should be required to write master’s theses. Although some students (including myself) at times bemoan the thesis as impractical and suggest a public history project or portfolio as an alternative, I found my thesis experience to be integral to my development as a public historian. Read More
07 October 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: 2014 New Jersey Forum with keynote address by Spencer Crew on “The Rugged Road to Citizenship: New Jersey’s Response to Newcomers from the American Revolution to the Present” – Nov. Read More
07 October 2014 – Jean-Pierre Morin
On October 23rd, the University of Amsterdam will be hosting the first conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH), “Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered”. Several years in the making and spearheaded by the tireless efforts of Manon Parry and Paul Knevel of the University of Amsterdam and Serge Noiret, Chair of the IFPH, public history practitioners from Europe, the Americas, and Asia will come together for three days to discuss and debate what digital media brings to public history and where public history is headed in a digital world. Read More
02 October 2014 – Jay Carlson 1
public engagement, media, memory, sense of place, entrepreneurialism, commemoration, projects, methods
I can’t even tell you how many crackpot business ideas I’ve had over the years, from producing greeting cards to owning an art supply store to selling candy in vending machines. They never came to fruition, but then I had an idea to create ready-to-solve scavenger hunts. Read More
30 September 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: New BackStory radio episodes on police/community relations, Americans and wilderness, and more
CFP: Historians Against Slavery Conference: Anti-Sexual Slavery Campaigns – Sept. 24-27, 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Read More
30 September 2014 – Cathy Stanton 6
Prompted by Suse Cairn’s June musings on whether museum professionals need theory in their working lives, we posed the same question via social media about public historians and gathered a handful of responses:
Read MoreI think theory and reflexive thought is fascinating and, ideally, useful for planning project goals and critiquing ourselves as authors.