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
05 March 2013 – editors
ANNCT: New online resource, “American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922” from New-York Historical Society
CFP: 9th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers Conference, April 12-13, 2013, State University of New York Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 8, 2013
CFP: The Sixth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, April 22-24, 2013, National Art Gallery of Denmark, Kunst, Denmark SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22, 2013
CONF: Oral History and Institutional History – The Warwick Project “The Voice of the Past” Part 2, March 12, 2013, University of Warwick, UK
CONF: Public History in the Digital Age, April 4-5, 2013, National Archives at College Park, Maryland, U.S. Read More
04 March 2013 – Thomas Cauvin
profession, training, conference, WG Teaching PH, digital media, public engagement, education, international
In a recent post on History@Work, Zachary McKiernan discussed the utility of an international vision of public history. In many ways, this post encapsulates the rising interest in public history practices outside North America. The recent creation of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) is a prime example of this. Read More
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