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
21 June 2013 – Will Walker 5
At the NCPH annual meeting in Ottawa, Margo Shea and Will Walker, along with other public history educators interested in online teaching and learning, began a conversation about the challenges, risks, and opportunities of having civil and productive conversations about tough questions related to public history (i.e. Read More
19 June 2013 – Cathy Stanton 1
ANNCT: New community website for digital historians: join or start a group at Digital Historians.
ANNCT: National Coalition for History moves into social media realm with Facebook and Twitter
CFP: Papers on travel and tourism for MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn. Read More