03 March 2013 – Adina Langer 1
Welcome to the month of March. Depending on where you live, spring may still be a few weeks away, but it’s a great time for a consultants’ TweetChat. Tomorrow, Monday, March 4, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (please note the new time!)
01 March 2013 – Eleanor Mahoney 3
Quick – name three National Park Service (NPS) units that commemorate, mark or otherwise emphasize the history of industrial work, or the labor movement in the United States.
Okay – Lowell National Historical Park might come to mind. Anywhere else?
Think. Read More
28 February 2013 – editors
NEWS
2013 NCPH Election Results Elected to the Board of Directors were Denise Meringolo (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jill Ogline Titus (Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College), and Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Elected to the Nominating Committee: Priya Chhaya (National Trust for Historic Preservation) and Patricia West (National Park Service). Read More
28 February 2013 – editors
CFP: 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, “WATER WAYS: The Ethnohistories of People and Water,” Sept. 11-15, 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 19, 2013
CONF: Gettysburg: History and Hype, April 13, 2013, Manalapan, New Jersey, U.S. Read More
25 February 2013 – Noah Goodling 3
In August, 2012, an extraordinary thing happened: a small museum, dubbed the Friends of Science East (FSE, now the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe), which was being run out of two unused classrooms in a local high school on Long Island, began an online fundraising campaign which raised over $1 million in just over a week. Read More
22 February 2013 – Adina Langer 1
One of the reasons for creating History@Work (and its predecessor, “Off the Wall“) was to contribute to discussion about peer review in public history–where it happens, what gets reviewed, how professional public historians might locate their critiques in dialogue with critical commentary outside the field, and whether traditional scholarly peer review can capture and respond to the increasingly wide range of projects and products that come under the heading of “public history”–everything from apps to tweets. Read More
21 February 2013 – editors
NEWS
2013 NCPH Award Winners. Click here for the list of NCPH Award recipients. Congratulations to all! Full details will be announced during the 2013 Annual Meeting in Ottawa.
Video Contest Has Its First Entrant! This is how it’s done, people. Read More
20 February 2013 – Randy Bergstrom 8
We are interested in applying a new theoretical approach to public history, and we need your help.
The theory is called “threshold concepts.” Jan Meyer and Ray Land (both education specialists) developed threshold concepts as a way of explaining how students grasp (or don’t grasp) particular disciplines. Read More
19 February 2013 – editors
CFP: 2014 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 28, 2013
CFP: CITY TEXTureS: Reflecting the City in Literature and Museums, Aug. 12-15, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2013
CONF: The Secrets of Mary Bowser: Black History Month/Civil War 150th Event in Detroit, Feb. Read More
18 February 2013 – William Bomar 2
conference, What Employers Seek panel, entrepreneurialism, museums, education, profession, employment, training, funding, new professionals
This is the third post in a series to discuss the genesis of the idea for the “What Employers Seek in Public History Graduates” session at the 2013 National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa. Session panelists will continue to share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More