11 July 2012 – Mary Rizzo 1
“There was this young man from West Philadelphia,” our tour guide, Barbara, told the group of us assembled on hard plastic chairs. “He was a tagger, a graffiti artist, kept getting in trouble. He finally got sent to jail, and when he got out his girlfriend told him she didn’t want him around their baby anymore. Read More
09 July 2012 – Steven Burg 5
David Walsh’s article on the History News Network, “Public History’s Great Showing at the 2012 NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting,” observed not only the vitality of public historians within the historical field, but also the unique relationship between public history and digital history. Read More
06 July 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
preservation, social justice, public engagement, memory, museums, government, human rights, international, politics, Letters from Chile
In addition to the photos that have accompanied Zach McKiernan’s “Letters from Chile” series this spring, there have been many more that we didn’t post with the articles, but which we’re including here in a visual addendum to the series. All are by the author unless otherwise noted. Read More
03 July 2012 – Cathy Stanton 2
The National Archives at Kansas City welcomed four local Wikipedians for a Meetup and Scanathon Saturday on June 16, 2012. The meetup theme was “Between the Rivers” and focused on photos and textual holdings related to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Read More
29 June 2012 – Vanessa Macias 1
public engagement, community history, memory, sense of place, education, profession, employment, training, new professionals, projects, methods
In 2004, I completed my MA graduate program in History with a sure sense of what was going to happen next: teach for a year, and then start a Ph.D. program. By 2007, I wasn’t sure if a Ph.D. was in my future and started exploring other options. Read More
28 June 2012 – editors
With the completion of a year-long grant project this month, participants in Northwest Digital Archives’ Expanding Access Grant will have exposed almost 500 new collections in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana through NWDA’s database. The database, which offers access to more than 11,500 finding aids for archival collections at thirty-seven institutions, is an efficient means for collection discovery and exposure at a wide variety of institutions and repositories. Read More
27 June 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
public engagement, memory, museums, scholarship, government, human rights, international, profession, Letters from Chile, advocacy, social justice
/continued from Part I
At the outset of this series, I proposed two seemingly simple questions in hopes of unpacking the complexity of sites of memory and how they “engage citizens in human rights issues” vis-à-vis the past. What type of historic work is taking place? Read More
25 June 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
social justice, public engagement, memory, government, human rights, international, politics, Letters from Chile, advocacy
This past Sunday, June 10, the right-wing Corporation 11 de Septiembre held an homage to the dead dictator Augusto Pinochet under the auspices of a documentary screening at the iconic Teatro Caupolican in Santiago Centro. That day it was answered and challenged in sometimes violent ways by diverse sectors of society and weeks before when many of Santiago’s notably non-violent human rights organizations and sites of memory maneuvered to use legal and political recourse to prevent a ceremony that celebrated a leader infamous for overseeing an era of human rights violations. Read More
22 June 2012 – Kate Preissler
There are many transitions we go through when we leave graduate programs and start working as public historians. A hard one for me was the transition from student to role model and possible mentor to others working in the field of history. Read More
20 June 2012 – Mary Rizzo 3
Founded in 1984 to combat graffiti, Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program replaced tags and bubble letters with larger-than-life murals that were designed collaboratively by community members and professional artists, becoming one of the most influential public arts organizations of its kind. Since that time, more than 3,000 murals—memorializing famous Philadelphians, commemorating immigration and migration stories, and acknowledging groups ranging from veterans to people with disabilities—have put a visual face on many neighborhoods, identifying and crystallizing their unique character.[1] Read More