Around the Field May 19, 2021
18 May 2021 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: UCLA offers a prize; the Costume Society of America hosts a virtual symposium; the University of Oxford holds a webinar.
Editor’s Corner: the shadow of a pandemic
12 May 2021 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2021 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.
Several contributions to this issue in some way reflect the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public history scholarship and labor. Read More
Around the Field May 5, 2021
04 May 2021 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week:the Society for Georgia Archivists calls for session proposals; the National Post Museum hosts a webinar; and Southern Cultures invites paper submissions.
The role of curatorial work in our two pandemics part 2: Inside the gallery
28 April 2021 – Elena Gonzales
This is the second part of a two-part essay in which I propose five ideas for anti-racist museological work that carries a public health benefit. In Part 2 I looked at the context in which curatorial work takes place and how the institution can set the stage for effective curatorial work for social justice. Read More
Around the Field April 21, 2021
20 April 2021 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: The History Makers is offering a fellowship opportunity; the Institute for Historical Studies is holding a virtual conference; the Costume Society of America is hosting a webinar.
Centering Indigenous voices at the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum
08 April 2021 – Linda Eben Jones, Chris Ann Gibbons, Bobbi Rahder and Samantha Williams 1
In January 2020, the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum opened in Carson City, Nevada. Since the boarding school’s closure in 1980, former students and their families had urged the state of Nevada to commemorate alumni experiences as a means of recognizing their trauma and need for healing. Read More
Around the Field April 7, 2021
07 April 2021 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the State Historical Society of Iowa offers research grants; the National Humanities Alliance calls for conference proposals; the National Preservation Institute hosts a webinar series.
Discovering activism and advocacy in historic preservation through my grandparents’ furniture
25 March 2021 – Jacqueline Hudson 3
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2021. Jacqueline Patrice Hudson is the winner of the NCPH new professional award.
As a young child, I thought visiting my grandparents in Chicago was a fun adventure each summer when my younger sister Jephreda and I got the chance to ride a plane by ourselves (accompanied by an airline employee, of course). Read More
Around the Field March 24, 2021
23 March 2021 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: Bowling Green State University offers awards; the National Humanities Alliance calls for proposals; the Association of Midwest Museums begins a webinar series.
College on the Move Q&A: A living and public history trip through the Southeast
23 March 2021 – John R. Legg
plantation, methods, community history, sense of place, National Park Service, American Civil War, teaching
Editor’s Note: How can students get valuable study abroad experience at home? John R. Legg, an Affiliate Editor with History@Work and PhD student at George Mason University, interviews Dr. Niels Eichhorn about a public history-oriented domestic study trip that introduced students to American Revolution, Civil War, and Civil Rights-era historical sites around the Southeast. Read More