08 November 2013 – Aaron Cowan
The digital humanities are rapidly transforming both the discipline of history and the pedagogy of public history. When I taught my first Introduction to Public History course six years ago, my course schedule had two weeks devoted to digital history; today it occupies more than half of the semester. Read More
06 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Book talk and reception with editors and contributors, “Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice,” Nov. 18, 2013, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Information and RSVP via Facebook event page
AWARD: New public outreach award from American Society for Environmental History for public outreach project relating to environmental public history
DEADLINE: Dec. Read More
06 November 2013 – Jill Titus 1
In July 1963, tens of thousands of visitors flocked to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle widely touted as the turning point of the American Civil War. Despite the profusion of toy souvenirs and 19th-century garb, the fact that this anniversary coincided with heightened street confrontation over civil rights, increased international condemnation of racial injustices in the US, and shifts in Cold War politics did not go unnoticed. Read More
04 November 2013 – Cathy Stanton 1
November 1 was the deadline for participants in next spring’s National Council on Public History conference to register in order to secure a place in the program. I’m guessing that that has gotten many of us thinking about flight and hotel arrangements. Read More
01 November 2013 – Anne Parsons 4
It was a June morning when I got out of my car and walked towards the barbed wire and concrete of the Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison in central Illinois. The guards behind the plate-glass windows cleared me through the six mechanical locked doors to enter the facility. Read More
31 October 2013 – Mary Rizzo 1
The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, NCPH Board Member Posts, preservation, sense of place, scholarship, profession
A few weeks ago, I asked readers of History@Work to nominate articles on historic preservation and place from The Public Historian for a yearlong conversation in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 2016. Read More
30 October 2013 – Rachelle Salinave
media, memory, human rights, international, race, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, projects, social justice
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
30 October 2013 – editors
AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government Invites Nominations for the 2014 John Wesley Powell Prize for historic preservation projects.
DEADLINE: Nov. 29, 2013
CFP: “Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century,” July 6-8, 2014, Melbourne, Australia
DEADLINE: Oct. Read More
28 October 2013 – Ted Baumann 2
Continued from Part 1
Shortly after it was established in 2005, the Muizenberg Municipal Improvement District (MID) Board went to work to eliminate the refugee/renter population. This was obviously not how things were described, but the intention was unmistakable. Moreover, MID insiders were quite prepared to admit this to residents – as long as they were white and middle class – on the assumption that those qualities guaranteed agreement with the board’s course of action. Read More
25 October 2013 – Tim Grove 9
The History Relevance Campaign (HRC), for lack of a better name, is a grassroots movement made up of public historians who say it’s time to show why the study and practice of history develop life skills that contribute to a stronger citizenry and are crucial to our nation’s future. Read More