16 June 2022 – David Rotenstein
On the morning of April 1, 2022, I was among throngs of remote researchers who visited the National Archives and Records Administration website to access data from the newly released 1950 Census. I had waited thirteen years to answer one research question: Who was the Black woman working in a family home that I had first researched in 2009? Read More
15 June 2022 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: NCPH 2023 topic proposals are due June 15 for anyone looking for early feedback; the OAH previews 2024 Call for Proposals, including a virtual conference series with NCPH; AASLH announces 2022 Leadership in History Award winners
ANNOUNCEMENTS
14 June 2022 – Henry J. Kennedy and Nathan R. Stenberg 2
It is time for a Smithsonian National Museum of Disability History and Culture. Considering the fact that one in four Americans, or approximately 61 million people, is disabled, a national museum would acknowledge disability as an essential component of American life. Read More
07 June 2022 – Diana M. Katovitch 10
The Pennhurst Haunted Asylum and the Pennhurst Museum, operated by Pennhurst LLC in collaboration with the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance (PMPA), exist side-by-side on the grounds of the shuttered Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania. The sites might seem to have opposite goals: one to frighten and entertain, the other to educate about past wrongs. Read More
01 June 2022 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: NCPH calls for proposals for 2023 conference; the American Association for State and Local History releases a census of history orgs; the Missouri Speakers Bureau is seeking applicants for their 2022-2024 program cycle
31 May 2022 – Chelsea D. Chamberlain and Elliott W. Simon
Founded in 1852 as the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Elwyn is the oldest continuously operating educational facility for people with intellectual disabilities in the United States. Today, headquartered just outside Philadelphia, it is a large multi-state provider of community-based and residential supports to people with a wide range of disabilities. Read More
26 May 2022 – Laura De Moya Guerra
Editors’ Note: This is the final of four essays in a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Read More
24 May 2022 – James W. Conroy and Katrina N. Jirik
Many countries have erected memorials to the state-sponsored suffering of their citizens, such as the Gedenkstaette memorial in Dachau, Germany and Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa. For more than 150 years, millions of Americans with developmental disabilities were segregated, isolated, neglected, and abused in overcrowded, state-funded institutions, as poignantly detailed in disability rights scholar Burton Blatt’s Christmas in Purgatory. Read More
19 May 2022 – Sarah Coffman and Elissa Branum
Editors’ Note: This is the third of four essays in a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Read More
18 May 2022 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: NCPH calls for proposals for 2023 conference; the American Association for State and Local History releases a report; the Center for Jewish History and jMUSE has recently published a new book. Read More