From around the field this week: The Monument Lab is holding a town hall in Philadelphia June 28; the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums is seeking nominations for their Guardian of Culture and Lifeways Awards by June 28; proposals for the “Reimagining the Museum: Conference of the Americas” meeting this October in Oaxaca are due June 16. 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.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. 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. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.”Read More
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two that will highlight reflections on events at the March 2019 National Council on Public History annual meeting.
I felt honored and humbled. Here I sat with a few hundred fellow public historians in a historic church listening to community members share their hopes about how a new national park might collaborate with their neighborhoods and help make a positive difference to life in Hartford, Connecticut. Read More
From around the field this week: Last chance to submit a proposal for the NCPH Poster Session at AASLH 2019; applications for two National Endowment for the Humanities grants are due soon; the first issue of the new open access Journal of Festive Studies is available online 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. This is part 2 of a two-part post written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, with questions posed by History@Work editor Adina Langer (AL) and answers given by Deborah Strahorn (DS) of APEX Museum and Marcy Breffle (MB) of Historic Oakland Cemetery.Read More
This special issue, guest-edited by historian Melinda Marie Jetté and timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, sparked a query among our editorial alumni and archives to identify just when The Public Historian first embraced the lives of LGBTQ people among our public history constituents. Read More
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Last chance to submit a proposal for the NCPH Poster Session at AASLH 2019; applications for two National Endowment for the Humanities grants are due soon; the first issue of the new open access Journal of Festive Studies is available online