From Around the Field this week: The National Park Service accepts grant applications; MuseumNext holds a virtual summit; New-York Historical Society offers a seminar.Read More
Editor’s note: Our next installment of the “Our Climate Emergency” series highlights David Glassberg’s essay about historical places, climate change, and how to decide whether a site needs to be preserved or not.
Climate disruption makes it more urgent that public historians engage with their communities to protect places significant to local history and identity from deterioration and oblivion. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History calls for responses to survey; the National Endowment for the Humanities accepts applications for several grants; Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment calls for abstracts.Read More
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is excited to announce the creation of a new award: the NCPH Grassroots Public History Award. This award reflects NCPH’s commitment to acknowledging the many different kinds of work public historians do and the wide array of places we do it, particularly outside of large and predominately white institutions. Read More
Editor’s note: Today we continue the “Our Climate Emergency” series with a post by Melody Hunter-Pillion that centers oral history methods as a way to battle climate change.
“It’s different and it’s more severe . . . I’m not the scientists, but I can definitely tell you, it’s happening.”
The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, discovered in the silent archives of Northwestern University Libraries Special Collections repository (Part one) and digitally developed through collective effort (Part two), now features a fully-searchable, open-source online archive and a digital exhibit that introduces themes and materials to aficionados and newcomers alike. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History calls for proposals; the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience offers multiple webinars; Southern Cultures calls for papers.Read More
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2022 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
Our four featured articles in this issue, all Reports from the Field, examine public historians working with performing artists, corporate donors, undergraduate students, and suspicious artifacts. Read More
Editor’s Note: This the second post in a two-part series inspired by the challenges and opportunities associated with creating a virtual version of NCPH’s Digital Public History Lab (DPHL). You can read the first part by clicking here.
My first co-organization of DPHL was meant to happen in March 2020. Read More
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Historical Society offers a seminar.