10 July 2013 – Matthew Barlow 6
The City of Boston took down the Boston Marathon Memorial on June 25. The memorial began life at the sites of the twin bombings on Boylston Street in the immediate aftermath of the explosions there on April 15. The city relocated the memorial to Copley Square once Boylston and surrounding streets re-opened to traffic the following week. Read More
09 July 2013 – editors
AWARDS: Charles Redd Award for excellence in exhibitions about the American West + Director’s Chair Award for outstanding achievement in museum profession, from Western Museums Association
DEADLINE: July 15, 2013
AWARDS: AALSH announces 2013 Leadership in History Award Recipients
CFP: (Dis)Memory of Disaster, Oct. Read More
08 July 2013 – editors 3
Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous African Americans in the United States, but few have heard of him in Britain. This demands redress, as in 1845 Douglass travelled to the British Isles for nearly two years, lecturing over three hundred times in cities across the country. Read More
04 July 2013 – Matthew Exline 53
“‘He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all those close calls he’s had. Sure, I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to. . . . ‘
“‘And then you can ground him?’ Yossarian asked. Read More
01 July 2013 – editors
ANNCT: BackStory Radio reprises its series on Civil War history
ANNCT: The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is proud to announce the publication of the Annotated Bibliography of Oral History in Canada: 1980 – 2012
CFP: Seeking 3-4 participants for a roundtable titled “Innovative Reuse in the Post-Industrial City” at the NCPH Annual Meeting in Monterey, California, U.S., Read More
01 July 2013 – editors 1
I recently attended a conference whose organizers had discovered a remedy for the dreaded low-energy times of day when audience attention wanes: schedule a presentation about chocolate, complete with free samples. The talk was by Amanda Lange of Historic Deerfield, Inc. Read More
28 June 2013 – Mekala Krishnan 4
I recently started a new position at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Curatorial and Interpretation Fellow, for which my Public History degree from American University has been (and will continue to be) invaluable. Understanding art through history and vice versa is one of the joys of curatorial work in an art museum, but interpreting cultural, historical, religious and aesthetic context to a wider audience can be a real challenge. Read More
27 June 2013 – editors 1
CFP: Ulster-American Heritage Symposium 2014, June 18-21, 2014, Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. and June 25-28, 2014, Athens, Georgia, U.S.
CFP: Seeking panels for animals and critical heritage/public history sessions at Assn. of Critical Heritage Studies conference, Dec. 2-4, 2014, Canberra, Australia
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26 June 2013 – Morgen Young 3
As a full-time consulting historian, it is difficult to carve out time for my own research interests. Michael Adamson has discussed this challenge in this space.
In graduate school, I studied Farm Security Administration documentary photography. Upon starting my business, I found little time to continue my research–until a year ago. Read More
24 June 2013 – David Rotenstein 1
Back in February I wrote about some of the challenges of donating old interviews done during graduate school in the 1990s for newspapers to the Atlanta History Center’s archives as oral histories. After some interesting attempts to get release forms signed more than 20 years after the interviews were done and more than a few collisions with data rot, the donation was completed in June. Read More