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
18 August 2020 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the August 2020 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. Read More
13 August 2020 – Dan Gifford 1
The importance of community undergirds nearly every corner and crevice of public history. From spatial communities bound by common geography to cultural communities of shared identity and lifeways, we almost instinctively understand that museums, archives, oral history projects, and other public history products require community engagement and engagement with communities. Read More
11 August 2020 – Tracy Neumann 1
Grassroots protest and union activism have flourished in the decade since the Great Recession. Labor and working-class history has flourished, too, and is experiencing a resurgent interest among scholars and public historians alike. At our particular historical moment, shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests against state violence and white supremacy, labor history provides context for urgent contemporary concerns about public health, workplace health and safety, economic inequality, structural racism, and social welfare. Read More
06 August 2020 – Jan Levinson-Hebbard
African American history, projects, 2020 annual meeting, methods, NCPH 2020 awards, collaboration, race, labor, incarceration, theater
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Jan Levinson-Hebbard of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia received an honorable mention for the Outstanding Public History Project Award. Read More
05 August 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the Association of Midwest Museums accepts submissions for their awards program; the Southern Historical Association calls for proposals for their 87th Annual Meeting; The White House Historical Association continues their Facebook Live webinar series.
28 July 2020 – Michelle McClellan, Carolyn Barske Crawford and Leah Glaser
Authors’ Note: This is the third of three posts resulting from discussions of our 2019 NCPH annual meeting working group on improving existing National Register nominations. (The first post highlighted technical matters and the second discussed underrepresented communities and the integrity criterion.) Read More
23 July 2020 – Maya Brooks 6
When I arrived at the University of West Georgia (UWG) as a graduate research assistant in Spring 2019, I learned that I would be working on a project called Along the Ridge, which connects descendants of enslaved people with the history of their ancestors. Read More