13 November 2013 – Trevor Jones 5
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the number of academic public history programs, the saturation of the job market, and concern about the training students are receiving (see Robert Weyeneth’s article “A Perfect Storm”). Curtailing the number of public history programs, growing the public history market, and accrediting programs are all big challenges. Read More
13 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Mystic Seaport seeks volunteers to participate in an exciting public-history project onboard the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan.
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED: Dec. 1-31, 2013
CFP: Submission Extension for “Local Histories and the Social Imagination” theme issue of the Cadernos, journal of the Memorial Centre of Western Santa Cataraina, Brazil
DEADLINE: Nov. Read More
11 November 2013 – Cathy Stanton 16
Continued from Part 1.
Purchasing carbon offsets, as most people probably know by now, involves giving a company an amount based on the carbon generated by your own activities. The company then invests the money in projects—building renewable energy projects, reforestation, energy efficiency measures, etc.—that Read More
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