Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18 through March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
You may be surprised to learn that one of the largest Hindu temples in the United States is located just outside Atlanta, and that the city is home to the second-largest Bhutanese community in the country. Read More
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of posts from members of the Local Arrangements Committee for the NCPH 2020 annual meeting which will take place from March 18 through March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
“A city lay in travail, God our Lord, and from her loins sprang twin Murder and Black Hate. Read More
From around the field this week: AASLH National Visitation Survey is available; the Gerald Ford Presidential Library & Museum accepting applications for awards; the Association of African American Museums announces call for proposals; and the White House Historical Association seeks proposals for the White House Quarterly. Read More
Entering the Flight 93 National Memorial galleries in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a few years ago, my mind was on my achy muscles. My husband and I had just completed an intensive, multiday cooperage workshop at the Somerset Historical Society nearby. We don’t visit western Pennsylvania that often, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to check out the Memorial despite being pretty exhausted. Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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From around the field this week: AASLH National Visitation Survey is available; the Gerald Ford Presidential Library & Museum accepting applications for awards; the Association of African American Museums announces call for proposals; and the White House Historical Association seeks proposals for the White House Quarterly.