09 April 2013 – editors
CFP: American Historical Assn. panel on “Current Events in Historical Perspective”
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013
CFP: “China: Curating, Exhibitions and Display Culture” issue of Journal of Curatorial Studies
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013
CFP: “The Countermonument – 30 Years Later” session at College Art Association, Feb. Read More
09 April 2013 – Clarissa Ceglio 3
Does your public history project or course use WordPress software? If so, you are one of a growing number in the profession, and in academia more broadly, who use the open source WordPress software as a tool for publishing digital projects. Read More
08 April 2013 – Jill Dolan 3
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Rideau Street Convent Chapel, preservation, art, museums, conference, The Public Historian, review, conference city review
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons. Read More
05 April 2013 – Julia Brock 2
gender/sexuality, projects, advocacy, art, social justice, public engagement, community history, memory, archives, human rights
“All we have to open the past are our five senses. And memory.”
We public historians are increasing our fluency in languages. We are conversing with colleagues across the globe and across disciplines, we are ever dexterous in our work with new media, and we are constantly strengthening the ways we reach out to audiences, drawing from a language of engagement that has emerged since our field’s early days and that has blossomed in the last ten years. Read More
04 April 2013 – Anne Mitchell Whisnant 1
profession, politics, NCPH, Imperiled Promise, NCPH 2013 Awards, NCPH Board Member Posts, advocacy, scholarship, government
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is the second in a two-part series by Marla Miller and Anne Whisnant, two of the four authors of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the group category. Read More
03 April 2013 – editors
NEWS
03 April 2013 – Marla Miller 4
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is part of a two-part series by Marla Miller and Anne Whisnant, two of the four authors of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the group category. Read More
02 April 2013 – editors
CFP: Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference, October 20-22, 2013, Washington, D.C., U.S.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 12, 2013
CFP: Heritage and Change in the Arctic, Oct. 11-14, 2013, University of Greenland
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013
EDU: Project Management for History Professionals course from American Assn. Read More
02 April 2013 – Cathy Stanton
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Cathy Stanton, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the individual category for “Plant Yourself in My Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Landscape Study of Farming and Farmers in Columbia County, New York.” Read More
01 April 2013 – Trina Nelson Thomas 2
As senior director of the five public program departments at the Indiana Historical Society I regularly work with interns and faculty, and I regularly employ graduates from history programs. I ask several specific questions when am sifting through applicants: