20 March 2013 – Yolanda Chávez Leyva 1
NCPH 2013 Awards, projects, art, public engagement, community history, memory, sense of place, museums, NCPH
Read MoreEditors’ 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 Yolanda Chávez Leyva, co-director of Museo Urbano at 500 S. Oregon, the winner of the 2013 NCPH Public History Project Award.
18 March 2013 – editors
CFP: Poster Session at American Association for State and Local History conference, Sept. 20, 2013, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 10, 2013
CONF: Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections, July 21-23, 2013, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Read More
15 March 2013 – Evan Kutzler 1
Part of what drew me to the University of South Carolina’s Ph.D. program in history in 2010 was the opportunity to engage with controversial topics while pursuing an M.A. in public history along the way. The summer after my first year in the program, I found a part-time job with a private non-profit organization looking for someone to produce a new guidebook for an historic property it managed: a farmhouse located on a former plantation in the hills of one of the Border States. Read More
15 March 2013 – editors
NEWS
Happy Birthday, History@Work! It’s hard to believe that our blog is one year old this week. Besides a vigorous record of analysis and insights on the field, History@Work has the distinction of being the foundation of NCPH’s expanding Public History Commons. Read More
13 March 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 7
The recent History@Work post postulating the importance of peer review and its possibilities in digital form challenges us to rethink more traditional methods of scholarly review. History@Work’s inaugural year demonstrates that the uptick in attention to public history’s products and projects in academic, international, and other circles is pushing and pulling us in new directions. Read More
12 March 2013 – editors
CFP: Oral History Methodology in Social and Political Movements Research, July 6, 2013, University of Warwick, U.K.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 14, 2013
CFP: Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association 2013 Conference, Oct. 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Read More
11 March 2013 – Alexandra Mosquin 3
What Employers Seek panel, scholarship, education, government, profession, employment, training, new professionals, conference
As a public historian and manager of historical research at Parks Canada for the past 12 years, I have sat on many hiring committees to hire historians, policy analysts, program officers and university students for a range of heritage and history projects based in our national office in Gatineau, Quebec. Read More
07 March 2013 – editors
NEWS
06 March 2013 – Denise Meringolo
Read MoreEditors’ 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 Denise Meringolo, whose book Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History is the winner of the 2013 NCPH Book Award.
05 March 2013 – editors 2
A new issue of The Public Historian will be appearing in libraries and subscribers’ mailboxes soon. Below is an advance look at the Table of Contents:
The Public Historian
A Journal of Public History
Volume 35 February 2013 Number 4
Editor’s Corner
The Past Enhanced, Endowed, Engaged
Randolph Bergstrom
Roundtable
Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
William Bryans, Albert Camarillo, Swati Chattopadhyay, Jon Christensen, Sharon Leon, and Cathy Stanton
Public History and Public Humanities: State Humanities Councils
Public Works: NEH, Congress, and the State Humanities Councils
Jamil Zainaldin
Making the Humanities Public: The Example of Connecticut’s Humanities Council
Briann Greenfield
Digital History at Historic Sites
#VirtualTourist: Embracing Our Audience through Public History Web Experience
Anne Lindsay
Crossing Borders: Conversations on the War of 1812 Bicentennial Online and in Print
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The War Of 1812 In Canada And The United States In 2012
Karim M. Read More