26 June 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: NCPH joins AASLH, OAH, and Frameworks Institute on Mellon Foundation grant; the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Projects Funding applications are due August 14; the Indiana Historical Society has some upcoming free webinars to put on your calendar. Read More
25 June 2019 – Adina Langer 2
Since we launched History@Work in 2012, we have been thinking seriously about the role of tags in navigating the site and improving our readers’ experiences. Tags are terms related to a post’s content that can be used to link that post in the blog’s back-end database to other posts about similar themes. Read More
20 June 2019 – Rachel Gross
Every week throughout the summer, small groups of residents of Missoula, Montana, meet at Caras Park near downtown for history tours called “Unseen Missoula.” One important contributor to the development of the tour program has been the public history students of the University of Montana. Read More
18 June 2019 – Chip Colwell
museums, NCPH 2019 Awards, conference, American Indians, finance, decolonization, artifacts, 2019 annual meeting, Indigenous People
Editors’ Note: This is the third in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Chip Colwell received the NCPH Book Award for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Read More
13 June 2019 – Dean Herrin
2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, Indigenous People, American Indians, maritime history, tours
During the annual meeting of the National Council for Public History in Hartford in March, I had the good fortune to be on the tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, and of Mystic Seaport, both in eastern Connecticut about an hour’s drive from Hartford. Read More
12 June 2019 – editors
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
11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration
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
06 June 2019 – Priya Chhaya
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series that illustrates the role of the NCPH Endowment in supporting and growing the field. To find out more about how the NCPH Endowment Fund supports the work of public historians and to make your pledge to the 2020 Vision campaign, please visit: https://ncph.org/giving/endowment/ Read More
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history
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
30 May 2019 – Joan Zenzen
Hartford series 2019, gun violence, hackathon, National Park Service, plenary, NCPH Board Member Posts, 2019 annual meeting
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