16 October 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: Applications open for Small Museum Association Conference scholarships; preregistration discounts for the AHA Annual Meeting extended for federal employees; Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts to host conferences and workshops; and Taylor & Francis publishes various titles. Read More
15 October 2019 – Katrina Cohen-Palacios
video, film, media, digitization, archives, everyday life, Canada, diversity, libraries, 2019 archives month series
Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
10 October 2019 – Donna Baker and Sarah Calise
2019 archives month series, social justice, community history, memory, archives, scholarship, race, Confederate memory series, rapid response
Editors’ Note: This is one post in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
09 October 2019 – Tom Scheinfeldt
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series that illustrates the role of the NCPH Endowment in supporting the work of the organization. To find out more about how the NCPH Endowment Fund supports the work of public historians and to make your gift, please visit: https://ncph.org/giving/endowment/ Read More
08 October 2019 – Mahala Ruddell
How do you cultivate trust in government institutions like a state archive while working in a place like Utah, populated by dispersed communities who, generally speaking, dislike top-down governance and place a high value on public access to records? Read More
02 October 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: SAA releases Documenting in Times of Crisis resource kit; applications open for The Robert Frederick Smith Applied Public History Fellowship; 2021 Call for Proposals for the OAH Annual meeting to open; and Museums Etc. to release new title. Read More
01 October 2019 – Liz Jones-Minsinger
partnerships, archives, teaching, libraries, 2019 archives month series, Quakers, special collections, access
Editors’ Note: This is the first in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
19 September 2019 – Allison Horrocks 1
working group, 2019 annual meeting, historiography, cultural heritage, public programming, interpretation, authority, National Park Service, shared authority, public history
For the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, I had the pleasure of coordinating the Interpreting Our Heritage in the 21st Century working group with public historian Nick Sacco. Our goal was to take a fresh look at Freeman Tilden’s foundational text, Interpreting Our Heritage (1957), and to consider whether it required “repair work,” which was the annual meeting’s theme. Read More
18 September 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: NARA seeks public discussion on new Digital Preservation Framework; ASEH offers research fellowship; the Texas Historical Commission to host collections webinar, and Rowman & Littlefield releases a variety of titles.
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17 September 2019 – Kirbie Sondreal
These past few months, I have had the pleasure of interning at the National Council on Public History (NCPH), largely working on research for the organization’s upcoming 40th anniversary in 2020. I’ve been helping to think through NCPH’s strategy for commemorating the anniversary, and also digging into the organization’s history. Read More