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
Contact by Aug. Read More
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
19 June 2013 – Peter Alter
Every fall I teach a course at the Chicago History Museum (CHM) for DePaul University students interested in museums and public history. Students become immersed in museum functions through behind the scenes tours and guest speakers from our staff. The students’ capstone experience includes group projects focused on CHM’s media, primarily researching, interviewing, and writing for posts to the Museum’s blog. Read More
17 June 2013 – Liz Ševčenko 13
“I sat there in my chair listening to the comment, ‘I don’t know much about Guantánamo,’ follow nearly each of my peers’ introductions, myself included,”
Marnie Macgregor, University of Minnesota
Marnie was joining over 100 other students from around the country in a national experiment in public history and public dialogue. Read More
14 June 2013 – Robert Weyeneth 1
The first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places turned 90 this month. He is well-known professionally and personally among those who worked on behalf of historic preservation in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. William J. Murtagh is equally well-known to today’s generation of preservation teachers and students. Read More