The "new normal": Is there one?

07 April 2014 –

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“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

Project Showcase: From Chautauqua to Ricketts

28 March 2014 –

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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

Digital projects showcased in Monterey

24 March 2014 – 1

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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.

  • Nathan Brown, digital projects librarian at New Mexico State University, showed the work the library has done in digitizing historical materials from the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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"Sustainable public history" means action in Monterey

22 March 2014 –

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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