01 May 2013 – editors
CFP: Objects of Remembrance (Special issue of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts)
DEADLINE: May 31, 2013
CFP: Film, History and Public Memory Conference, Oct. 4, 2013, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
DEADLINE: June 2, 2013
CFP: Remembering in a Globalizing World: The Play and Interplay of Tourism, Memory, and Place, September 8-10, 2014, Le Chambon sur Lignon, France
DEADLINE: Nov. Read More
01 May 2013 – Stephen Lewis 3
As a trade union leader and a political activist, I had occasions to attend national and international events. Often, other attendees would bring posters from their respective organizations. I would usually take one of each because I was attracted to either the graphics or the issue or both. Read More
29 April 2013 – Matthew Barlow 5
public engagement, government, international, politics, War of 1812, Canada, Stephen Harper, digital media
2012 was a big year for Canadians. We celebrated two important anniversaries: the thirtieth of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which made revolutionary changes in the way Canadian law works, and the two hundredth of the War of 1812. Read More
25 April 2013 – editors
CFP: “Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium, June 27, 2013, University of Warwick, U.K.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 1, 2013
CFP: “The Politics and Practices of Urban Renewal”
DEADLINE: May 15, 2013
CFP: “The Office as an Interior (1880-1960),” Oct. Read More
25 April 2013 – editors
NEWS
25 April 2013 – Michael Adamson 1
The weekend of 12-14 of April, I took the opportunity to attend the Organization of American Historians meeting San Francisco—a mere 35-mile BART ride from my home—to see how visible public history was on the program one year after the OAH and NCPH held a joint meeting in Milwaukee. Read More
24 April 2013 – Cathy Stanton 1
Editors’ note: This conversation responds to Adam Shoalts’ report on the October 2012 bicentennial reenactment of the Battle of Queenston Heights and is part of the collaborative coverage of War of 1812 commemoration in History@Work and The Public Historian. Read more here. Read More
22 April 2013 – Cathy Stanton
There actually was a thunderstorm with lightning on Thursday night in Ottawa–it’s been an unsettled spring here, as in much of the northeast. The lightning on Friday, though, came in the form of a set of quick presentations at the NCPH conference on recent and emerging digital public history projects. Read More
19 April 2013 – editors
Join us for two digital-public-history events today at the NCPH conference:
Lightning Talks (12:30-1:30 p.m.) – An informal brown-bag lunch session in the Frontenac Room where you can showcase your own digital project and hear what’s new and exciting in the digital humanities. Read More
18 April 2013 – editors
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has launched “Closed for Business,” a new digital history project focused on the early years of the Great Depression and the December 1930 failure of a large Philadelphia bank, Bankers Trust Company.
The project was part of a larger effort funded by the Albert M. Read More