28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
advocacy, community history, memory, sense of place, National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
23 January 2020 – Adina Langer 2
race, urban history, 2020 annual meeting, local history, Atlanta Series 2020, digital history, education, government, gentrification
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18th through March 21st in Atlanta, Georgia.
Like many sunbelt cities, Atlanta’s origins are more engineered than organic. Read More
22 January 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: The NEW announces grant awards; SAA accepting applications for multiple awards and funding opportunities; ACLS accepting applications for 2020 Fellowship Competition; and the Mountain-Plains Museums Association is seeking proposals for 2020 conference. Read More
09 January 2020 – Dillon Maxwell 8
In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote, “There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe.” The saw works across years to pull out “little chips of facts”; the wedge splits wood into collective views; the axe lops limbs for the “peripheral rings of the recent past.” Read More
08 January 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week:The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for multiple grants; the Virginia Association of Museums is offering a workshop about disaster preparedness; Museum Advocacy Day will be February 24-25; and the Association of African American Museums is seeking proposals for their 2020 meeting. Read More
07 January 2020 – Lady Marie Bulilan and Alaina Scapicchio
What’s the right thing to wear to the Manuscript Reading Room in the Library of Congress? That question might seem trivial to those who have done archival research before, but it was a fairly big one for us as two undergraduates setting off on our first journey as research assistants. Read More
26 December 2019 – Sydney Johnson
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final post in a series on the Chicory Revitalization Project. The first post featured the history of the project and the second post considered digitization of the magazine.
During its nearly twenty-year run, Chicory’s contributors detailed their lives, struggles, and dreams with candor—grasping at fragmented ancestral ties, growing up in the projects, and creating alternate futures for their city. Read More
19 December 2019 – Mary Rizzo
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a three-part series on the Chicory Revitalization Project.
In my first post in this series, I argued that Chicory, a community poetry magazine from Baltimore in the 1960s, could be a valuable resource for public historians seeking the perspectives of regular people, particularly working-class African American young people, about the tumultuous era they lived through. Read More
18 December 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: The Climate Heritage Network announces action plan; the Society of Architectural Historians and the Historic American Buildings Survey are accepting fellowship applications; AASLH offering live webinars in January; and Theory and Practice is accepting papers for Summer volume. Read More
12 December 2019 – Mary Rizzo
Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part series on Baltimore’s Chicory Revitalization Project.
Following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, black visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors, and poets conceptualized themselves as part of the Black Arts Movement, a black nationalist political and aesthetic project. Read More