21 December 2012 – Nicole King 1
During the fall 2012 semester, I taught the third iteration of my undergraduate research seminar “Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore” for the Department of American Studies at UMBC. The class is designed to expose students to historical documentation skills as well as business practices that can be used in the non-profit world. Read More
18 December 2012 – Joseph Cialdella 3
profession, preservation, public engagement, community history, sense of place, museums, scholarship
Through the support of the Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan, I recently found myself, along with my team of colleagues, navigating unfamiliar territory in the form of partnership with Cliveden of the National Trust to update the site’s National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination. Read More
14 December 2012 – Morgen Young 1
In Part 1 of this post, participants in a Northwest History Network professional development program called Who Hires Consulting Historians? talked about some of the “soft skills” that employers look for. Part 2 is an additional excerpt from the discussion. You can hear a podcast of the entire program here. Read More
11 December 2012 – editors 1
You never know where history might pop up. This Underground Railroad panel is part of U-Haul’s “Venture across America and Canada” SuperGraphics program, which features a different design for each of the 50 states and 12 provinces and territories. While many focus on technological, natural, and even supernatural wonders, several are history-themed, and many, like the Ontario entry, also feature extensive web pages. Read More
07 December 2012 – Morgen Young 1
On November 8, 2012, the Northwest History Network, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon, hosted a professional development program entitled Who Hires Consulting Historians, a follow-up to A Future in Historical Consulting: Is It for You?, a panel discussion held over the summer. Read More
04 December 2012 – Matthew Godfrey 1
Historians working on the Joseph Smith Papers have to navigate a balancing act between our various audiences—much like those who do contract history work. For the most part, the project has succeeded in its attempts to be balanced. In a review of the first volume of the Journals series in the journal Documentary Editing, Kenneth Minkema, executive editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, declared, “Readers need not raise a skeptical eyebrow when they see this edition is produced by LDS members and printed by an LDS press.” Read More
02 December 2012 – Adina Langer 1
Can you believe it’s been a whole month since our inaugural consultants’ TweetChat? Our second session is scheduled for this Monday, December 3, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This month, we will focus on that ever-elusive goal of the self-employed: time management! Read More
30 November 2012 – editors
MNopedia is a new born-digital, open-access encyclopedia of Minnesota. It is a project of the Minnesota Historical Society, one of the largest and oldest historical societies in the nation. Funding so far has come from a special statewide fund established in 2008 by the taxpayers of Minnesota, the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF), a portion of which is specifically dedicated to projects that preserve Minnesota’s historical and cultural heritage. Read More
28 November 2012 – Hilda Kean 3
In the course of moving Ruskin College, the trade union and labour movement college founded in central Oxford in 1899, from its prime location to a site on the outskirts of the city, the college has been re-branded and much of its archive destroyed or dispersed to other institutions. Read More
26 November 2012 – Matthew Godfrey 1
In my years as a historical consultant, I did several projects for agencies such as the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Much like the church for which I now work, these agencies are interested in their past, but also are sensitive to criticisms that have been levied against them by opposing groups, such as environmental organizations. Read More