10 December 2019 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2019 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
05 December 2019 – Max Farley and Krista Pollett and Brian Whetstone
This summer, a team of National Council on Preservation Education (NCPE) interns oversaw the National Historic Landmarks Program’s social media accounts and explored firsthand how the creative chaos of shared social media management can be harnessed as a productive outlet for engagement and interpretation. Read More
04 December 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: The Newberry Library is offering short-term fellowships; AASLH seeks nominations for Leadership in History Awards; National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting to be held March 8-10; and The Tenement Museum is hosting a panel discussion on im/migrants. Read More
03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi
sense of place, interpretation, advocacy, Native American, methods, Indigenous People, social justice, environmental history, public engagement, memory, food
Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.
I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More
28 November 2019 – Anita Bakshi
landscape, social justice, native americans, public engagement, environmental history, Indigenous People, memorials
The Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan have called Ringwood, New Jersey, home for centuries. The surrounding landscape features iron mines, Native American rock shelters, and a forest that provides food for hunters and foragers. But it also contains a stew of different chemical toxicants from the former Ford manufacturing plant, deep pockets of contaminated soil, streams that now flow with orange water, and the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. Read More
26 November 2019 – Sharon Pajka 4
As the days grow darker and the leaves start to turn, the atmosphere lends itself to spooky stories. Like other colleges, Gallaudet University, the world’s only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf and hard of hearing students, has its share of ghost stories. Read More
13 November 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: AASLH releases National Visitation Report; SHFG seeks submissions for 2019 awards; ALHFAM seeks proposals for 2020 Annual Meeting; and the White House Historical Society seeks papers for the White House History Quarterly.
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12 November 2019 – Krista McCracken and Kristin Ahlberg
The NCPH Governance Committee is seeking your help as we work to update an important document in the life of our organization. As our organization has grown and changed, so must our Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. As NCPH celebrates its 40th anniversary year, we are reminded of the dynamic growth of the field of public history and of this organization. Read More
08 November 2019 – Chel Rose Miller 1
2019 annual meeting, #MeToo, advocacy, bystanders, profession, employment, conference, gender/sexuality, ethics
The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, including in scholarly and professional communities. The last two years have shown us that the public history community is no exception. Read More
31 October 2019 – Nick Sacco 2
methods, historiography, public engagement, sense of place, interpretation, National Park Service, working group, 2019 annual meeting
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts reflecting on a working group that met at the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut.
In his 1957 book Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden attempted to provide one of the first working definitions of what it means to interpret history and nature to public audiences. Read More