05 May 2014 – Lara Kelland 5
In her thought-provoking post from November 2012, Mary Rizzo opened up a conversation about the relationship between the rapidly growing field of digital humanities and public history. Reflecting on a recent THATcamp meeting, Rizzo concluded that existing divisions between the producers and the critical thinkers of digital humanities projects had the potential to re-inscribe gender and racial hierarchies. Read More
01 May 2014 – editors
First, thank you to everyone who participated in the first pop-up exhibit at the National Council on Public History conference in Monterey, “Seeds of Change: Public History and Sustainability.” The exhibit was a great success, and we are very excited about the positive responses that we received. Read More
29 April 2014 – editors
CFP: “Entangled Memories: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age” – Oct. 9-11, 2014, Hamburg, Germany
DEADLINE: May 20, 2014
CONF: “Deindustrialization and Its Aftermath: Class, Culture, and Resistance” – April 30-May 4, 2014, Montréal, Québec, Canada
CONF: “Owning the Past: Academics, Communities and the Practice of Public History” – May 30, 2014, Derby, U.K. Read More
24 April 2014 – Rose Miron
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
23 April 2014 – editors
ANNCT: Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C. invites input from audiences, teachers, scholars on new digital project, “Remembering Lincoln”
Survey can be accessed here
CFP: “Why Does it Happen? Complicity and Resistance to Genocide in World History” – Oct. Read More
21 April 2014 – Tim Grove 1
Well, not quite all. Let me elaborate.
How many times has someone told you that you have the coolest job? I’ve heard this comment at various points in my career, and admittedly, I have had the opportunity to work on some really fun history projects. Read More
16 April 2014 – editors
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History will take place from April 15-18, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference theme is “History on the Edge.”
Edges are where exciting things happen. Some are stark boundaries, marking clear beginnings and ends, while others are blurred contact zones.
15 April 2014 – editors
CFP: “Historical Auto/Biographies in the Arts,” an international conference in English and French, March 25-26 (Le Mans, France), March 27 (Angers, France), 2015
DEADLINE: June 15, 2014
CFP: “Cotton in the American South and Beyond” – Oct. Read More
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