02 August 2010 – Larry Cebula 3
Public historians sometimes see our our academic counterparts as tradition-bound and reluctant to engage the general public or to embrace new technologies. So it’s worth taking note of a terrific radio program hosted by three academic historians: BackStory – With the American History Guys. Read More
26 July 2010 – Melissa Boyajian 4
I would like to consider a selection of contemporary artists who utilize archives and history in their work as a method of reconstituting the meaning of history, past, place, identity, exhibitry and authorship. Since there are many interesting artists working with history and archives I will concentrate on a couple and continue with more in my future reviews. Read More
20 July 2010 – Will Walker 1
Is it possible that something interesting might come from a place called Dulwich? One suspects that the people who reside in this area of South London try extra hard at dinner parties to appear lively and witty given the name of their place of residence. Read More
12 July 2010 – Margo Shea 7
digital media, methods, public engagement, community history, digital history, media, memory, sense of place
Most of us are familiar with Flickr, an online open source platform for sharing, tagging and talking about user-generated digital photos. Around 5,000 images get uploaded every minute, lending credence to the notion that many of us are operating in a techno-blur of obsessive documentation and display of our lives, our people, our surroundings. Read More
06 July 2010 – Margaret Middleton 5
A week ago I put on my boots and my puffy white shirt and sailed up to the NorCal Pirate Festival, a pirate-themed event at the docks on Mare Island in Vallejo California. There were vendors selling piratey wares, musicians playing sea shanties, games of all kinds, and more pirates than I’d ever seen! Read More
30 June 2010 – Cathy Stanton
Welcome to the National Council on Public History’s new exhibit review blog! Our goal here is to think about history exhibitry “off the wall”–that is, to move beyond existing definitions of what a history exhibit is by finding and reflecting on some of the emerging places and ways that historical display is appearing in our wired, mobile, global, re-localizing, over-heating, contentious and creative world. Read More
30 June 2010 – Kevin Bartoy 3
This short clip of actor Tim Robbins reading the words of historian and gay activist Martin Duberman on the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion is taken from a collection of videos from the “Voices of a People’s History” project, a performance-oriented offshoot of Howard Zinn’s iconic work “A People’s History of the United States” (Zinn, who died earlier this year, is seen in this clip introducing Robbins’ reading). Read More
30 June 2010 – Adina Langer 7
The UK’s portal to museums, archives, heritage sites and art venues is this year’s Museums and the Web recipient of the Archimuse “Longest Lived” award. First launched in 1999, the site is a true grand-dame in internet years, but with a 2009 makeover and an enthusiastic embrace of RSS, Twitter and open-crawling, Culture 24 is certainly “up” with the times. Read More
03 February 2010 – NCPH Office
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I’m testing the conference blog. Read More