21 February 2014 – Michael Jordan
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
19 February 2014 – Jason Steinhauer 5
Continued from Part 1.
Unlike corporations that use historical images as a marketing strategy, museums, archives, libraries, and national historic sites are caretakers of history whose goal is not to distract from serious investigation but rather to promote it. We want people to understand context, to ask questions, and to dig deeper into sources. Read More
19 February 2014 – editors
CFP: The American Historical Association invites proposals for posters for the 2015 annual meeting, Jan. 2-5, 2015, New York, New York, U.S.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 17, 2014
Information on proposals and submissions.
CFP: The International Federation for Public History (IFPH), an affiliate of both the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the Comite International des Sciences Historiques/International Committee of Historical Sciences (CISH) invites your participation in the upcoming 22nd Congress of CISH that will take place in Jinan, China, in August 23-29, 2015. Read More
18 February 2014 – Jason Steinhauer 7
Suppose you’d never heard of @HistoryinPics, and I told you that a new social media account had grown to more than a million followers by featuring a different historical image in its feed every couple of hours.
As a public historian, you might be intrigued. Read More
14 February 2014 – Richard Anderson 1
I am a sucker for the drama of the Olympics. Yet while watching the ongoing Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, I have been struck once again by the continuous invocation of the past during the Olympics and–at the same time–the limited historical consciousness exhibited by the International Olympic Committee, national organizing bodies, corporate sponsors, and host cities. Read More
12 February 2014 – Cathy Stanton
For quite a number of years now, I’ve been one of the people involved in gathering and disseminating news about the public history field through the various channels of the National Council on Public History: the H-Public listserv, the News Feed here in the Public History Commons, and the regular emailed updates that go out to NCPH members. Read More
11 February 2014 – editors
AWARD: American Association for State and Local History awards program for projects, individual achievement, organizational excellence, and publications.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2014
CFP: Emerging Innovators Forum for grad students and emerging professionals to present new projects at the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, May 20, 2014, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Read More
10 February 2014 – Steven Burg 2
Continued from Part 1.
The case of Southern Öland provides a rather dramatic case where visions of heritage preservation and renewable energy development collided, but it is certainly not unique. Other communities have faced similar challenges, including the World Heritage sites of Mont-Saint-Michel in France (where an off-shore wind project was blocked by the French courts), and Britain’s Jurassic Coast. Read More
07 February 2014 – Will Walker 1
One of my life goals has long been to read Don Quixote in the original Spanish, and I recently embarked on this monumental, even quixotic, task. Read More
05 February 2014 – editors
ANNCT: 2014 Conservation Assessment Program offers assessments of U.S. collections and historic structures by conservation and preservation professionals from Heritage Preservation.
DEADLINE: Feb. 14, 2014
AWARD: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies announces multiple awards for 2014 for scholars conducting research related to Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or/and Wyoming. Read More