Project Showcase: Returning the Voices to Kouchibouguac

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kouchibouguac-imageIn 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

Project Showcase: Museum on the Move

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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

Project Showcase: "Inside a Senate Investigation: Watergate 40 Years Later"

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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

Professional opportunities May 7, 2013

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

Seventh monthly Consultants' Corner TweetChat

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Happy spring, all you consultants out in cyberspace! Monday, May 6th, will bring you our seventh monthly Consultants’ Corner Tweetchat. The chat will be held at 4:00 p.m. EST and the topic will be “international perspectives in historical consulting.” We hope you can join us, and we especially welcome consultants from nations outside the United States. Read More