12 January 2022 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Society of American Archivists Foundation accepts nominations for several awards; the International
Federation for Public History calls for proposals; the Museum Learning Hub offers multiple virtual programs.
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11 January 2022 – Donna Graves
Editor’s note: Today we share our next installment for the “Our Climate Emergency” series. Donna Graves, one of the editors of this series, investigates her role as a public historian and explores the visual nature of the climate crisis. Read More
06 January 2022 – Emma Johansen
This is the second of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society. Part 1 was published on December 30, 2021.
The Bullitt family enslaved over two hundred people at the Oxmoor plantation in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and the Cottonwood plantation in Henderson County, Kentucky. Read More
30 December 2021 – Emma Johansen
Editor’s note: This is the first of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society.
The core component of The Filson Historical Society’s latest digital collection featured a reworking of the Bullitt Family Papers to highlight the people they enslaved, including the Sanders, Green, and Taylor families, among others. Read More
15 December 2021 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Park Service accepts applications for two grants; the Midwest Archives Conference calls for poster proposals; the Public and Digital Humanities Institute offers a summer program. Read More
09 December 2021 – Kathleen Thompson
Clio is a nonprofit humanities organization that connects users to nearby history and culture through a free educational website and mobile application that hosts individual entries, tours, and trails. Clio is also designed for instructors to use in the classroom to teach the skills of doing history and to promote the work of scholars to a public audience. Read More
07 December 2021 – Braden Paynter
Editor’s note: This is our third installment of the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series.
Historic sites have a critical role to play in advancing environmental and climate justice, using history and place to unlock the root causes of both harm and the ongoing resistance to addressing that harm. Read More
01 December 2021 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The American Council of Learned Societies accepts applications for two grants; The Organization of American Historians calls for conference proposals; the Museum Learning Hub offers multiple virtual programs. Read More
17 November 2021 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Organization of American Historians accepts applications for two awards; the National Humanities Alliance offers multiple virtual programs; the Journal for Academic Freedom calls for papers. Read More
11 November 2021 – Tiffany Momon, Torren Gatson and Victoria Hensley 1
Editors’ Note: This is the second of two Q&A posts about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive. The first post was published on November 9, 2021.
History@Work: What role can all public historians play in elevating stories of Black craft?
Torren Gatson: Public historians serve as the new vanguards of treasured and overshadowed histories. Read More