22 July 2013 – David Rotenstein 12
In 1975 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development designated a one-square-mile part of Decatur, Georgia an Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program neighborhood. The designation meant that the city’s housing authority could sell distressed properties in its inventory to qualified buyers for one dollar. Read More
18 July 2013 – Briann Greenfield 9
I teach a course in material culture studies, so I am in the habit of using historic artifacts to think about our changing relationship with the environment. But nothing made this lesson clearer to me than a 1950s Hotpoint refrigerator.
When I acquired the refrigerator it was over 50 years old and looked it–there were dents, scratches, and rust decorating its exterior. Read More
17 July 2013 – editors
CFP: “Archaeoacoustics: The Archaeology of Sound,” Feb. 19-22, 2014, Malta
DEADLINE: Sept. 1, 2013
CFP: “Reconsidering Roots: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of a TV Mini-Series that Changed the Way We Understood American Slavery”
Seeking essays that interrogate the historical impact of Roots, as well as those that assess its place in contemporary U.S. Read More
15 July 2013 – Kevin Murphy
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
12 July 2013 – Bruce Harvey 6
We’ve all no doubt heard the line thrown back at us: “If you preservationists don’t want this building torn down, then why aren’t you putting your own money into it? How dare you tell a private owner that he can’t tear it down?” Read More
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