27 January 2014 – Tyler Priest 1
I am generally not a fan of sound-bite history. In this age of information overload and attention deficits, however, I suppose we must consider ways of packaging history in short, audio-visual formats in order to reach a larger public audience. Richard Heinberg’s Post Carbon Institute video, “The Ultimate Roller Coast Ride,” is a worthy effort in this regard. Read More
24 January 2014 – Holly Ackerman
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
22 January 2014 – Nancy Zak 3
environment, sustainability, human rights, politics, digital media, projects, advocacy, public engagement, community history, memory, archives
Ironbound Community Corporation, a non-profit community organization in Newark, New Jersey, which celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2014, began working on an archive in 2011, partnering with the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. ICC’s unique environmental justice history, which gained it an early national reputation, is important to its city, state, and the country at large. Read More
21 January 2014 – Cathy Stanton
ANNCT: Museums Advocacy Day 2014, Feb. 24-25 in Washington, D.C., is the prime opportunity for museums to make their case on Capitol Hill and your participation will provide an invaluable service to both your museum and your museum colleagues nationwide. Read More
17 January 2014 – Cassie Ward 2
Every day I am asked, “You’re a public historian–what the heck is that and what do you do all day?” I smile from ear to ear, climb on top of my soapbox, and begin to talk about how fortunate I feel to have turned my love of history into a challenging and fulfilling career. Read More
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
education, training, graduate students, new professionals, digital media, methods, digital history, collaboration
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