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
27 February 2014 – Michael Adamson 4
The working group that we have organized for the upcoming annual meeting in Monterey explores both the extent to which consulting historians have formed joint ventures to bid for and execute projects and the retention of independent consultants on the part of consulting firms (historical and otherwise) on a project-by-project basis. Read More
26 February 2014 – Adrian Petry
Like many community museums, we’ve had a difficult time encouraging and maintaining a young adult audience. We know that members of generation Y love information, history, museums, and artifacts. We also know that members of generation Y sometimes like to focus more on presentation style, technology, and media than on content. Read More
25 February 2014 – editors
CFP: Collecting and Collections in Times of War or Political and Social Change, COMCOL Annual Conference 2014, Dec. 3-6, 2014, Celje, Slovenia
DEADLINE: March 15, 2014 (website information coming soon)
CFP: Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping, April 30, 2014, Birmingham, U.K. Read More
24 February 2014 – Marla Miller
On a summer 2013 study trip to historic sites in and around Boston hosted by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia, participants were struck by the wide variety of ways they saw gender and sexuality interpreted–or in some cases, not interpreted at all. Read More
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