25 March 2013 – Abigail Perkiss
Read MoreIt is May 1, 1981. A jury of eight internationally renowned architects and sculptors has announced its pick for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, set to be constructed at the western end of the Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
22 March 2013 – Jessica Cochran
Pick up a penny. On one side, we observe Lincoln as he was; on the other side, Lincoln as we have chosen to remember him. Public historians face the challenges and rewards of interpreting history for a population obsessed as much with “authenticity” as “legacy.” Read More
21 March 2013 – editors
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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