14 April 2014 – John Felton
“It was a big war a long time ago.”
That was all that a young man shopping recently at a farmers market in Santa Monica, California, could say about World War I. He’s not alone. Most Americans seem to know very little about the war, which somehow has gotten lost in our collective memory about our past. Read More
10 April 2014 – David Rotenstein 2
In December 2013, an African American man was detained by Decatur, Georgia, police after he was seen leaving his home. An officer issued a suspicious person alert based on the “reasonable articulable suspicion” premise–the legal basis for many states’ “stop and frisk” laws. Read More
09 April 2014 – editors
CFP: “Experiences of World Heritage in Africa” seminar – Oct. 14-16, 2014, Rabat, Morocco
DEADLINE: April 30, 2014
CFP: “Heritage Conservation and Preservation: Connecting cultures in a global world” issue of Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
DEADLINE: June 15, 2014
CFP: “Imagine There Were No Humanities” conference – Nov. Read More
07 April 2014 – Angela Sirna
“Sequester” was a dirty word during last year’s conference season. At the March 2013 conference of the George Wright Society in Denver, attendance was down nearly 75 percent because of travel limitations put into place right before the meeting. At the National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa a few weeks later, I noticed a number of my colleagues were absent. Read More
01 April 2014 – editors
AWARD: Media & Technology Muse Awards for outstanding achievement in Galleries, Libraries, Archives or Museums (GLAM)
EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 7, 2014
CFP: Reparative Histories: Radical Narratives of ‘Race’, and Resistance – Sept. 11-12, 2014, Brighton, U.K.
DEADLINE: May 7, 2014
CFP: “Golden Ages: Styles & Personalities, Genres & Histories,” 2014 Film & History Conference – Oct. Read More
01 April 2014 – Cathy Stanton
Regular visitors to the Public History Commons may have noticed that we’ve undergone a slight facelift recently. The History@Work blog, initially the sole occupant of this site, has gradually been joined by other projects: the News Feed, The Public Historian’s digital space, and now our new Library. Read More
28 March 2014 – editors
Donald Kohrs is Branch Library Specialist at the Miller Library of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. For his presentation at the National Council on Public History conference last week in Monterey, California, Don shared his recent findings associated with summer gatherings of the Pacific Coast Assembly of the Chautauqua Literary and Science Circle (1880-1926) in Pacific Grove. Read More
26 March 2014 – Cathy Stanton
ANNCT: Estevan Rael-Galvez will give the 2014 Fredric M. Miller Lecture sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Region Center for the Humanities (MARCH), May 8, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
CFP:“Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice” seeks paper proposals for a theme issue devoted to the topic of “Authenticity.” Read More
24 March 2014 – Cathy Stanton 1
At the third annual “lightning talks” session highlighting new (and some not so new) digital public history projects at the National Council on Public History conference, a dozen presenters showed off their work to a lunchtime audience.
22 March 2014 – Cody Ferguson
After an incredibly engaging and well-attended American Society for Environmental History conference in San Francisco last week, I arrived in Monterey excited to extend the conversation about the connections among environmental history, sustainability, and public history. I did not expect, however, that the term “sustainability” could rouse the activist roots of our profession. Read More