19 March 2014 – Emily Oswald 3
I learned about Museum Selfie Day on Facebook just a couple of days before the event. I made a mental note and visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History on January 22. The results were silly and less skillful than I’d anticipated. Read More
18 March 2014 – Richard Anderson 2
During the coming year the National Council on Public History will prepare a Graduate Program Consumer’s Guide. The Consumer’s Guide will serve as a tool for anyone weighing the pros and cons of pursuing a degree or certificate in public history. Read More
17 March 2014 – Cathy Stanton 2
In a television interview last year, American writer and neo-agrarian icon Wendell Berry spoke about the “dreadful situation” facing young people who are grappling with the cascading environmental, economic, and social challenges linked with runaway capitalism and anthropogenic climate change. Read More
15 March 2014 – Priya Chhaya 1
Public historians are communicators. We tweet, blog, analyze, interpret, and document events for a variety of different publics. We make connections, linking widespread evidence into a single narrative.
It is that skill set that we are looking for at “Energy Efficiency + Climate Change: A Conversation with the National Trust for Historic Preservation” on Thursday from 8:30-10 a.m. Read More
13 March 2014 – Cody Ferguson
Sustainability is an increasingly attractive concept that resonates across disciplines and many facets of public life. A quick Google search turns up over 69 million results, including “sustainable development,” “sustainable seafood,” “sustainable performance,” “sustainable capitalism,” “sustainable travel,” and my favorite, “sustainable dance club.” Read More
12 March 2014 – Cathy Stanton
A draft version of Kate Preissler and Craig Langlois’s March 10 post “Free-range kids: Museums at play” was posted in error, and has now been replaced by the updated, correct version. We apologize for the error and hope that those who were intrigued by the piece will revisit it! Read More
12 March 2014 – editors
ANNCT: In April, the New York nonprofit SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone will present the 2014 SAFE Beacon Award to the Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Monica Hanna to honor her outstanding achievement in raising public awareness about our endangered cultural heritage and the devastating consequences of the illicit antiquities trade in Egypt. Read More
12 March 2014 – editors 1
Heading to Monterey for the National Council on Public History’s annual meeting next week? Don’t forget to pack your contribution to NCPH’s first pop-up exhibit, “Seeds of Change: Public History and Sustainability”!
Generated entirely from participant contributions and built onsite at NCPH, “Seeds of Change: Public History and Sustainability” will examine how issues of sustainability converge with the work we are doing in public history. Read More
11 March 2014 – Denise Meringolo
My public history courses are complicated.
Over the eight years since I took over as Director of Public History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), I have found myself juggling and re-juggling course content, trying to achieve just the right mix of reading, discussion, research, and practice. Read More
10 March 2014 – Kate Preissler 1
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post as it originally appeared on March 10 was a draft version, posted in error. The correct version appears below. We apologize to the authors and to our readers for the confusion.
Picture, for a moment, children of all ages loose in your museum; free to grab, change, move, and build with whatever their hands happen to come across. Read More