23 September 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the Ohio History Fund’s grant applications are due; the University of Southern California will host the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar virtually; The Journal of a Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive will hold virtual workshops.
23 September 2020 – Mary Rizzo
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) have launched an online survey about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history. This effort is the culmination of more than a year of work by members of NCPH’s Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, co-chaired by Kristen Baldwin Deathridge and Mary Rizzo. Read More
22 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Joint Task Force, entrepreneurialism, education, profession, employment, training, graduate students
Editors’ Note: This is the third of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
As the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment brings its work to a close, it is only natural to ask how effectively it has addressed the questions that inspired its creation. Read More
17 September 2020 – Rebecca S. Wingo
Editors’ Note: This is the first of three essays about the COVID-19 collaborative archiving project A Journal of the Plague Year: The COVID-19 Archive. The next two essays address teaching with the project and issues in archival silences. Read More
15 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Editors’ Note: This is the second of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
The second major project undertaken by the task force, a survey of alumni of master’s-level programs in public history and closely related fields, sought to understand the career paths of public historians. Read More
10 September 2020 – David Rotenstein
race, public engagement, community history, walking tours, digital history, covid-19, sense of place, teaching public history, collaboration
I teach a seminar on ethnography and community engagement in Goucher College’s graduate historic preservation program. Last year, I took my students to Baltimore’s Otterbein neighborhood, a historic district and one of the nation’s earliest urban homesteading neighborhoods.[i] The COVID-19 pandemic pushed our summer term online and that meant no class field trip to Baltimore, an annual program tradition. Read More
09 September 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the Phillips Library announces the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum; the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums will host a virtual meeting on “Do Museums Still Need Objects?”; Villanova University is holding a webinar series on “Decolonizing History.” Read More
08 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Editors’ Note: This is the first of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect public history employment? Read More
01 September 2020 – Jade Ryerson and Katherine Crawford-Lackey
In the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the techniques public historians use to engage communities have become increasingly digital, as have the methods we use to communicate with each other. Because COVID-19 continues to spread in the United States, public history organizations should consider how to offer enriching remote internship opportunities that are mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Read More
26 August 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a “Humanities Connections” grant; the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “PastForward 2020” conference comes soon; the Indiana Historical Society hosts a virtual talk on “Rethinking Redlining & Segregation.” Read More