18 January 2013 – Jennifer Stevens 6
Create a hero. Use suspense. Set scenes. That was the advice offered by renowned food politics author Michael Pollan to a room of professional historians who struggle to sell their books to a wide audience and still rely on a model of doing history created at the profession’s birth more than 100 years ago. Read More
16 January 2013 – Mary Rizzo 13
The New York Times blog recently posted a piece about the recent AHA conference in New Orleans. Touching briefly on panels about horses and trash in history, the author pauses momentarily to describe a discussion about “The Public Practice of History in a Digital Age.” Read More
14 January 2013 – John Dichtl 1
Turn to the sixth page of the 2013 Program of the American Historical Association and you will spot a genial turn of phrase: “the malleable PhD.” It refers to the idea—already engrained in the practice of public history—that graduate training need not limit one to a tenure-track teaching career. Read More
11 January 2013 – Anne Parsons 5
In our last History@Work post, we charted the recent burst of academic public history jobs in the past few years. This year’s job market has continued the trend, with thirty jobs seeking either major or minor public history specialties posted on the Academic Wiki. Read More
09 January 2013 – Robert Weyeneth 3
NCPH, global, International Federation for Public History, local, sense of place, scholarship, international, profession
Our annual meeting in Ottawa this spring has a program rich with participants from Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. Read More
07 January 2013 – Bob Beatty 9
education, profession, employment, training, new professionals, conference, What Employers Seek panel, museums
This is an initial 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 share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More
06 January 2013 – Adina Langer 1
Happy New Year all you historians out in cyberspace! Tomorrow, Monday, January 7, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time will mark our third monthly NCPH Consultants TweetChat. This month, we will discuss the ins and outs of crafting a solid project proposal. Read More
04 January 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 1
human rights, profession, graduate students, advocacy, public engagement, community history, memory, museums, scholarship
Continued from Part I.
I recently watched a documentary on, of all things, happiness. The film, “Happy,” focused on the study of happiness (positive psychology) and what makes people happy and when, along with the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contribute or detract from happiness. Read More
02 January 2013 – Jessica Ondusko 1
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a virtual gateway to tens of thousands of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals and films contributed by several of the world’s leading medical libraries. Open access to these materials through the Internet Archive enables scholars and the general public alike to explore the “interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.” Read More
31 December 2012 – Will Walker
Doing public programs is never easy, but it is the most immediate and rewarding way to engage directly with your audience. This past semester, the Cooperstown Graduate Program’s oral history project experimented with a new type of public program. Taking our cue from the statewide “Community Conversations” sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, which also provided funding for our project, we decided to use our large archive of oral histories as the basis for a series of dialogues about important environmental topics. Read More