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
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