19 September 2013 – RASI 2012 2
In August 2012, a group of 26 doctoral students and museum professionals from different disciplines and multiple countries gathered at the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) in Ottawa, Canada, for the fourth annual Reading Artifacts Summer Institute (RASI). The one-week program, guided by staff and volunteers from the museum with guest scholar Dr. Read More
17 September 2013 – editors
CFP: “Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts” – American Assn. for State and Local History annual meeting, Sept. 17-20, 2014, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
DEADLINE: Nov. 15, 2013
CFP: “Archive/Image. New Archival Epistemes in the Digital Landscape,” March 7-8, 2014, Open Society Archives, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
DEADLINE: Dec. Read More
16 September 2013 – Will Walker 1
One of the biggest challenges public history educators face is managing community partnerships. Such partnerships offer rich learning experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students, but they often entail numerous complications, which may lead some students and instructors to seek to avoid them altogether. Read More
13 September 2013 – Julia Thomas
human rights, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, projects, community history, memory, archives, government
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 and foster dialogue on its future. Read More
11 September 2013 – Zachary McKiernan
I do not know how many of the learned people who follow this forum know that 40 years ago today the United States government—and to point political fingers at political figures: President Richard Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and CIA Director Richard Helms—actively and illegally supported a bloody military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government in Chile. Read More
11 September 2013 – Melinda Jette
Over the past decade a growing number of public historians have responded to debates about climate change and the need for sustainable communities by making sustainability a central focus of their professional work. These efforts were initially informal, but as Leah Glaser described in a post earlier this year, in recent years there has been a push to incorporate issues of sustainability into the mission and work of the National Council on Public History. Read More
11 September 2013 – editors
ANNCT: The History News Network (HNN) has unveiled a new design. Check it out at http://hnn.us/.
ANNCT: Southern Historian journal seeks book reviewers for Spring 2014 edition. Visit their website for details about how to query.
CONF: “Migration, Memory and Diversity in Germany” symposium, Sept, 22-23, 2013, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Read More
09 September 2013 – Amy Tyson 6
“Ask a Slave” is a brand-spanking new comedy web series that is going viral in certain circles. In the series (just two episodes at time of writing; there will be six total), actress/comedienne/NYU grad Azie Mira Dungey portrays the character “Lizzie Mae” who is supposed to be an enslaved housemaid for America’s founding couple–George and Martha Washington. Read More
06 September 2013 – Robert Weyeneth 8
EDITOR’S NOTE: This four-part post by Robert Weyeneth, President of the National Council on Public History and director of the public history program at the University of South Carolina, is also printed in the September 2013 NCPH newsletter. To add your comments, go to Part 4 of the post. Read More
06 September 2013 – Robert Weyeneth 1
Continued from Part 1
What can NCPH do?
The alarmed observations with which I began single out the rising numbers of both programs and graduates, but it seems to me that the real issue is quality. I believe that NCPH can address the issue of quality control from two different but related angles. Read More