03 December 2014 – editors
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CFP: Across the Great Divide: Historical Research in a Digital World (Society for Historians in the Federal Government annual conference) – April 24-25, 2015, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, U.S. Read More
02 December 2014 – Brennan Collins 1
What happens when you layer an art experiment on top of a science project on top of a walking tour on top of an archival map on top of demographic data on top of a memoir? What if the archives of multiple universities could be accessed on one platform and layered with the projects, stories, and data from researchers, teachers, students, and community groups? Read More
26 November 2014 – Priya Chhaya
Earlier this year the Indian American Heritage Project at the Smithsonian launched its inaugural exhibition Beyond Bollywood. Housed in a gallery at the National Museum of Natural History through March 2015, the exhibition “explores the heritage, daily experience and numerous, diverse contributions that Indian immigrants and Indian Americans have made to shaping the United States.” Read More
24 November 2014 – Denise Meringolo 13
The year 2016 is a momentous one for public historians in the United States, particularly those who work for and with federal agencies. The National Park Service will mark the 100th anniversary of its founding, and the National Historic Preservation Act will have been in effect for 50 years. Read More
20 November 2014 – Angela Thorpe 3
This is the second post in a series on issues of diversity in the public history field. Each post in this series is based upon oral interviews conducted with public history professionals. Each interview was conducted in a traditional interview question and answer format. Read More
19 November 2014 – editors
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AWARD: Last call for National Council on Public History awards for student and professional projects, consulting, publications, more.
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2014
CFP: 17th Annual “History Across the Disciplines” Conference, “Narratives, Regions, and Theories: Modes of Understanding the Past” – March 20-22, 2015, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Dec. Read More
17 November 2014 – Richard Anderson 1
As a public-historian-in-training and recovering theater nerd, I attended last month’s Great Chicago Fire Festival with high hopes. Redmoon Theater–one of the city’s most innovative companies–staged an elaborate pageant on the Chicago River commemorating the infamous 1871 fire that destroyed much of the city. Read More
13 November 2014 – Angela Thorpe 4
This is the first post in a series on issues of diversity in the public history field.
“I’m surprised to see you here. You know this museum is for white people, right?” These words greeted me during my first days of an internship at a Greensboro, North Carolina, museum last August. Read More
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