25 May 2014 – editors
The TV network HISTORY announces a three-day series premiering this Monday (Memorial Day in the US) which treats the two world wars as a linked event—what Winston Churchill called “the second Thirty Years’ War.” Narrated by actor Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), World Wars tells the story of three decades of conflict through the eyes of political and military leaders like Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, Tojo, and Mussolini. Read More
23 May 2014 – Manon Parry 3
Sonya Michel’s recent post brings the behind-the-scenes issues that have plagued the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) project for years into public view. In 2012, when the Huffington Post reported “National Women’s History Museum Makes Little Progress in 16 Years,” it listed a catalog of concerns, from the overblown CV of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to financial irregularities. Read More
21 May 2014 – editors
ANNCT: “The World Wars” on HISTORY presents World Wars I and II as linked events in three-part series airing May 26, 27, and 28 at 9 p.m. eastern time
CFP: “Nigeria : 100 Years After the Amalgamation,” Historical Society of Nigeria – Sept. Read More
21 May 2014 – Philip Johnson 4
Guantanamo Public Memory Project, projects, community history, memory, sense of place, archives, politics
Editor’s Note: This piece continues a series of posts related to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration of public history programs across the country to raise awareness of the long history of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) and foster dialogue on its future. Read More
19 May 2014 – editors
The Israel State Archives in Jerusalem is Israel’s national archives. It holds the records of the state of Israel, founded in 1948, and some material from Turkish and Mandatory Palestine. Most of the documents in the Israel archives are from government bodies, but the repository also has a rich collection of private archives, maps, postage stamps, photographs and other audio-visual material. Read More
16 May 2014 – Adina Langer 2
training, National History Day, volunteerism, methods, public engagement, interpretation, education, consultants
What do exhibits about Marie Antoinette’s fashion and Ayatollah Khomeini’s political action, and websites about the invention of the toilet and the dissemination of the Pentagon Papers have in common? They are all student entries in the National History Day competition that I’ve had the opportunity to review as a judge over the past seven years. Read More
14 May 2014 – editors
ANNCT: Ruth Richardson will give a talk on saving a Victorian workhouse from demolition with some help from Charles Dickens – May 31, 2014, London, U.K.
ANNCT: Coming up on BackStory – petroleum, health food, and the history of corporate power. Read More
14 May 2014 – Eric Zimmer 1
Continued from Part 1.
Originally built in 1927, a small, unassuming Sinclair filling station on the edge of Main Street bespoke the pragmatic style of small rural industrial towns and stood as a monument to Deadwood’s mid-twentieth century history. It also survived a devastating fire that nearly destroyed the town in 1959. Read More
12 May 2014 – Sonya Michel 2
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On May 7, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill authorizing the creation of a commission to explore the feasibility of establishing a women’s history museum on the National Mall. Yet many women’s historians and museum professionals are not celebrating. Read More
09 May 2014 – Michael Adamson 1
The Consulting Alliances Working Group formed last fall to explore collaboration as a means by which independent consulting historians might do work that otherwise would not be available to them. After writing, posting (on this blog), and commenting on individual case statements, the group gathered in March in Monterey, California, at the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) to continue their consideration of the extent to which consulting historians may be missing opportunities to join colleagues in competing for projects that are likely beyond their reach as individuals. Read More