From around the field this week: Four Australian states adopt Value of History Statement inspired by the History Relevance Campaign; National Endowment for the Humanities announces 2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities; NCPH 2020 Call for Posters now open through October 7; journal The Southern Quarterly seeks submissions on “The Digital South” by September 15; the Center for Women’s History invites applications to join the 2019-2020 cohort of their Early Career Workshop by August 2. Read More
As part of American Archives Month, History@Work will be running an October series dedicated to the publicly-engaged work done by archivists in the U.S. and abroad. Do you want to share your thoughts and experiences with us about archives and public history? Read More
Recently, the U.S. Senate Historical Office launched an online exhibit commemorating the centennial of the Senate’s passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. “The U.S. Senate and Women’s Fight for the Vote” joins a number of initiatives, commemorative activities, and celebrations focused on the national women’s suffrage centennial that are occurring across the United States. Read More
After moving to a new state and leaving a position as Executive Director of Blount Mansion, a historic house museum, I joined the academic world as an adjunct teaching associate in the history department at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Read More
From around the field this week: History Relevance Initiative seeks feedback on new guiding framework; submissions are due for two prizes from MARAC and the Western History Association; proposals for NCPH 2020 are due next Monday, July 15; applications are now open for the second cohort of DC Public Library’s Memory Lab Network. Read More
Jack Schmitt has mixed feelings about the way that the Pennsylvania Route 28 project turned out. On one hand, the longtime Pittsburgh historic preservation advocate beams when he talks about how he successfully convinced the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to replicate historic Pennsylvania Canal lock stones in a retaining wall in the urban highway corridor. Read More
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I’ve been reflecting on the work of journalist Tony Horwitz, who died suddenly on May 27th. Horwitz’s 1998 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, had a profound impact on American popular culture, public history, and on my own personal and professional life. Read More
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More
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