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
07 March 2014 – Sam Tamburro 2
As I sit down to write this post (and by the way, this is my first “official” history blog post), I am pondering what my “New Situation Normal” is as a public history practitioner for a federal agency. How has my work reality changed, for good and for ill, over the past 16 years? Read More
05 March 2014 – editors
ANNCT: The International Committee of the Blue Shield expresses its its deep concern regarding the safeguarding and protection of the invaluable cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine, as well as the institutions that house them and the people that care for them. Read More
05 March 2014 – Thomas Foster 4
Jennifer Tyburczy’s brilliant observation that all museums “have played an important but often overlooked role in the institutionalization of categories of sexual ‘normalcy’ and ‘perversity’” can also be applied to house museums and historic sites. House museums, as sites for interpreting private lives, are engaged in complex ways with presentations of sex and sexuality. Read More
03 March 2014 – Brian Joyner 7
Several years back, I was a new public history practitioner working for the National Park Service (NPS). A series of fortuitous events led me to the NPS: a stint at a historical society, a freelance job for the Smithsonian, an informational interview with the NPS Office of Diversity and Special Projects, and a quick gig with a partner organization. Read More
01 March 2014 – editors
Dec. 23, 2013, marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which established the Federal Reserve as the central bank for the United States. Financial panics and bank runs plagued the nation during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the Panic of 1907 prompted many Americans to call for a central bank. Read More
28 February 2014 – Kathy Shinnick 1
Editor’s note: During the fall of 2013, the NCPH Consultants Committee distributed a survey to the NCPH consultants community in order to learn more about the community’s members and how best to serve them. This piece is part of a series examining the results of that survey. Read More