18 December 2013 – Stephanie Rowe
In her November 4, 2013, History@Work post, “My carbon offset piggybank: Thoughts on sustainability and professional conference-going,” Cathy Stanton opened a conversation about balancing the good that comes only from face-to-face meetings of peers with the harm to the environment that large national conferences can cause. Read More
17 December 2013 – Cathy Stanton
AWARD: Free webinar for potential applications to learn about American Association for State and Local History’s Leadership in History awards, Jan. 9, 2014, 2-3 p.m. eastern time
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
CFP: Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes essays from all academic fields such as art history, anthropology, and ethnic studies, seeks articles for its second and subsequent issues
CFP: Oral History Society Annual Conference – Community Voices, July 18-19, 2014 (Note new dates), Manchester, U.K. Read More
16 December 2013 – Mary Rizzo
The turn to spatial history has been aided by the explosion of digital mapping tools. While there are many options for mapping out there (including HistoryPin as described by Aaron Cowan in a History@Work post earlier this year), one look at the projects being completed by leaders in the field like the Stanford Visualization Lab is both inspiring and terrifying. Read More
11 December 2013 – Will Ippen 1
Continued from Part 1
11 December 2013 – editors
ANNCT: The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces the launch of its new website, the Home for History.
ANNCT: The Public Consultation on splitting English Heritage into two organisations has been initiated. There will be a public event on Jan. Read More
09 December 2013 – Will Ippen 1
As part of its ongoing efforts to facilitate greater mutual accommodation between sustainability and public history imperatives and to better define the NCPH’s role in that process, the NCPH Task Force on Sustainability and Public History conducted an online survey during September of 2013. Read More
06 December 2013 – Katherine Garland 2
For most of my experience as a public-historian-in-training, I did not often think about the arts in any purposeful way. I played in an orchestra from elementary school through college, have a not-so-secret love for musicals (my roommates are probably tired of hearing me sing Disney songs in the shower!), Read More
02 December 2013 – David Rotenstein 1
The depression of 1893 hit the Atlanta Suburban Land Company hard. The Georgia firm, founded in 1890 to develop residential subdivisions along a new six-mile streetcar line linking downtown Atlanta with Decatur to the east, had bought nearly 2,000 acres in its first two years in business. Read More
27 November 2013 – editors
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.
~ Christine Arato, Chief Historian, National Park Service, Northeast Region
After Imperiled Promise landed with something of a magnificent thud almost two years ago, I liken the NPS response to a progression along the five stages of grief articulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. Read More
27 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Public Interest Declassification Board seeks input about what the U.S. government should prioritize for declassification. Current topic is records 25 years or younger with more topics to follow over the next month.
ANNCT: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts and University of Pennsylvania Libraries launch series of infographic posters on preservation terms and guidelines
Visit website for first poster, focusing on temperature and relative humidity
ANNCT: Recent and upcoming from BackStory Radio: American Oratory, Conspiracy Thinking, A History of Scandal
ANNCT: “Museums, Politics and Power” blog and conversation about those issues as a lead-up to tri-national conference in St. Read More