16 January 2014 – editors
ANNCT: U.S. National Parks Conservation Association invites 18-34-year-old participants to apply to join its Future Leaders Council
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2014
ANNCT: Margo Anderson on “The Historian and Our Crisis of Data Collection vs. Privacy Rights” – Society for History in the Federal Government’s Annual Richard G.Hewlett Read More
14 January 2014 – Martha Norkunas
When I was researching the The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California (State University of New York Press, 1993) in the late 1980s, I was deeply affected by the disparity between the haves and have-nots in Monterey. Read More
10 January 2014 – Nicholas Sacco 2
digital history, collaboration, education, training, graduate students, new professionals, digital media, methods
There is a misconception in our American culture that young professionals are proficient at using technology. However, discussions among historians, humanists, and prospective employers indicate that many public history graduates are entering the field without practical training or consideration of the complex intersection between digital technology and public history. Read More
07 January 2014 – editors
AWARD: Richard H. Driehaus National Preservation Awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, honoring excellence in historic preservation in the U.S. by individuals and organizations.
DEADLINE: March 3, 2014
CFP: 2015 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 16-19, 2015, St. Read More
07 January 2014 – Cathy Stanton 3
advocacy, digital history, scholarship, sustainability, profession, conference, The Public Historian
Google “public history” and “climate change” and you’ll quickly realize that public historians are only just beginning to talk about how their work relates to the increasingly urgent questions posed by the earth’s rapidly changing climate. You could make a case that environmental public history is itself still in its infancy, even though it’s been more than two decades since Martin Melosi, in his President’s Annual Address to the National Council on Public History, issued a call for “environmental history [to] be a means to make the value of history better understood to the public.”[1] Read More
03 January 2014 – editors
ANNCT: Ruskin student archives: newruskinarchives launched in response to destruction of many of the trade-union college’s archives last year
ANNCT: U.S. Public Interest Declassification Board invites second round of commentary from historians and the public on priorities for declassifying records.
DEADLINE: Mid-January 2014
CFP: History in the Making: Pivotal Moments in Public Understanding – Graduate student conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. Read More
03 January 2014 – editors
The newruskinarchives database website has recently been launched in response to the destruction last year of most of the archive of student records at Ruskin College, the historic trade union and labour movement college in Oxford.
There was much press coverage of the scandal and widespread criticism of the actions of the (now former) Principal, Audrey Mullender. Read More
30 December 2013 – Debbie Anne Doyle
As part of its ongoing efforts to highlight the diversity of career opportunities for historians, the American Historical Association has organized an offsite workshop at the National Museum of American History during its conference this week. The workshop offers a chance to hear from leaders from some of the foremost history museums in the United States. Read More
27 December 2013 – Nancy Dallett
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
23 December 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Gettysburg, the Holocaust, and Iron: Using GIS to Understand the Past – Lecture at Hagley Library by Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College – Feb. 27, 2014, Delaware, U.S.
CFP: The Enlightened Image: History and Uses of Projection – May 22-23, 2014, Montréal, Québec, Canada
DEADLINE: Jan. Read More