06 August 2014 – Nicholas Sacco 1
Public historians attending a National Council on Public History (NCPH) Annual Meeting during the organization’s first thirty years of existence (1979-2009) rarely benefited from opportunities to learn about or discuss public history practices beyond the borders of the United States or Canada. Read More
04 August 2014 – Jamil Zainaldin
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here.
In The Heart of the Matter[1], we learn of the existence of a threat to the humanities. Read More
01 August 2014 – David Gadsby and Teresa Moyer
community history, The Public Historian, pulling back the curtain, archeology, National Park Service
Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More
30 July 2014 – Jean-Pierre Morin 1
methods, international, profession, International Federation for Public History, NCPH Board Member Posts
In recent years, there has been a sort of awakening within public history. This awakening has been very noticeable during the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, especially during the past four years. Where the attendance has traditionally been comprised of American practitioners and scholars (and a fair sprinkling of Canadians), the number of non-North American participants has been steadily growing. Read More
30 July 2014 – editors
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CFP: Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies: The State of Research 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide – April 9-11, 2015, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DEADLINE: Aug. Read More
28 July 2014 – Nancy Conner 2
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here.
In the past few years, the airwaves have been filled with angst about the state of the humanities, primarily in college and university humanities departments. Read More
24 July 2014 – Allison Weiss
Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More
23 July 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: Boundary Objects is an international network for early career researchers working with museums and collections, run by and for its members.
CFP: Nigerian Oral Literature Association conference – Aug. Read More
21 July 2014 – Mary Rizzo 4
Editor’s Note: This is the third piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here.
When the American Academy of Arts and Sciences makes the case for federal support for the public humanities in its Heart of the Matter report, it relies on arguments about the potential for civic engagement. Read More
17 July 2014 – Benjamin Filene
Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More