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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
06 September 2013 – Robert Weyeneth
Continued from Part 2
Quality Control from Students
Empowering students In its own way, the NCPH Guide to Public History Programs is also a best practices document itself. It is an international listing of graduate, undergraduate, and “related” public history programs that can be searched by geographical location, curricular concentration, and type of degree. Read More
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Continued from Part 3
Averting the storm
Let me conclude by reiterating that these personal reflections are offered in the spirit of “NCPH as a big tent,” open and welcoming to all public historians, old hands and new, inside and outside the academy. Read More
04 September 2013 – Jason Steinhauer 2
Several months ago in this space I reflected on the large crowds that flocked to Washington to witness President Obama’s historic second inaugural. Again, this past Wednesday, crowds assembled in Washington to hear the President offer “historic” remarks, this time on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in commemoration of the March on Washington in August 1963. Read More
03 September 2013 – editors
CFP: “Writing Women’s Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography Symposium,” Istanbul, Turkey, April 19-20, 2014
DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2013
CFP: 2014 Pacific Northwest History Conference, “Citizenships in the Pacific Northwest,” April 3-5, 2014, Vancouver, Washington, U.S. Read More
29 August 2013 – Marty Blatt 2
Hundreds of Boston-area Haitian Americans and African Americans attended the historical pageant, “Roots of Liberty – The Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War,” at Boston’s Tremont Temple on May 4, 2013.
Organized by Boston National Historical Park, Boston African American National Historical Site, Central Square Theater, Harvard University, and the Museum of African American History, the performance focused on the significant impact of the Haitian Revolution on black and white abolitionists and black Union troops. Read More
28 August 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Left Coast Press annual book sale + “No Excuses Writing Contest” for further discounts
ANNCT: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration announces the launch of “Rediscovering Black History Blog” focusing on documents, photographs and videos found while updating the black history guide for the National Archives and Records Administration. Read More
22 August 2013 – Mekala Krishnan
Read Part I of this series here.
The first big step in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s re-installation process was to conduct visitor research. How do visitors feel about the current South Asian galleries? What do they already know about the area’s religions, geography, cultures, etc.? Read More
19 August 2013 – editors 12
entrepreneurialism, profession, employment, training, funding, graduate students, new professionals, ethics
A recent History@Work post by Matthew Exline prompted a lively discussion of the challenges of getting a foot in the door as a new public history professional. One topic that appeared several times in the many comments was the unpaid internship, and the opinions on it were divergent enough that we thought it was worth following up on them. Read More