27 May 2013 – Denise Meringolo 3
Editor’s note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons
Ottawa Labor History Walking Tour, April 17, 2013. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Creators: Workers History Museum in partnership with Graduate Students from Carleton University. Read More
24 May 2013 – Cathy Stanton
“Sustainable Public History”
2014 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History
Monterey, California, March 19–22, 2014
Call for Proposals
In 2014 the National Council on Public History will meet at the Monterey Conference Center. Monterey is one of California’s most naturally beautiful and historically rich cities. Read More
21 May 2013 – editors
NCPH Supports Visas for Cuban Scholars. NCPH President Robert Weyeneth wrote to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in support of facilitating visas for Cuban scholars invited to attend the 31st Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.
Social Media 102. Read More
21 May 2013 – editors 1
In 1969 the Canadian and New Brunswick governments agreed to create Kouchibouguac National Park along the east coast of this Atlantic province. At the time, establishment of a national park required removing the people who resided there, in the belief that nature should be exhibited to visitors without signs of any human presence. Read More
17 May 2013 – Alima Bucciantini
What do you do when suddenly your panel goes from six people to two? When the U.S. government sequester and tightened institutional budgets mean that your carefully crafted slate of experts can’t make the trip to Ottawa to present in person? Read More
16 May 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Museum Assessment Program (MAP) application now available from IMLS
DEADLINE: July 1, 2013
CFP: PopMatters seeks 1200+ wd articles on “Is anachronism good or bad for consumers of historical fictions?”
DEADLINE: May 31, 2013
CFP: “Talking about protest – Oral history methodology in social and political movements research,” Sept. Read More
14 May 2013 – editors 2
Building upon our innovative approaches to teaching and practicing Public History, the History Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is proud to announce an exceptional project called Museum on the Move. Public History students will outfit a vintage Airstream trailer (left) with an interpretive exhibit that will then hit the road to take history directly out of the classroom and to the public. Read More
08 May 2013 – editors 1
During the month of May 2013, on www.senate.gov, the U.S. Senate Historical Office looks back 40 years to one of the Senate’s most important investigations. The Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, more commonly known as the Watergate Committee, questioned the president’s closest advisors about the break-in and cover-up at the Watergate office complex and other “illegal and improper campaign practices” that occurred during the presidential campaign of 1972. Read More
07 May 2013 – editors
ANNCT: BackStory seeks input for upcoming broadcast on history of intellectual property
CFP: “Second-Class Scholars?: Outside the Ivory Tower, Off the Tenure Track” roundtable participants sought, Nov. 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DEADLINE: May 17, 2013
CFP: One Archipelago, Many Stories: Integrating Our Narratives, August 30-31, 2013, Mangilao, Guam
DEADLINE: June 1, 2013
CFP: World Congress of Environmental History, July 7-14, 2014, Guimarães, Portugal
DEADLINE: June 15, 2014
CFP: Special Issue of Collection Management – “We’re Moving, Please Pardon Our Dust: A New Collection Management Paradigm”
DEADLINE: June 24, 2013
CFP: Oral History Forum d’Histoire Orale 2014 Special Issue: “Human Rights and oral history: stories of survival, healing, redemption, and accountability”
DEADLINE: Sept. Read More
06 May 2013 – Cathy Stanton 3
This spring, I’ve been teaching an urban anthropology class at Tufts University. In the class session before I left for the National Council on Public History conference, we talked about how digital technologies have become ever more interwoven with urban experience. Read More