29 May 2019 – editors
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
28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
museums, education, race, The Public Historian, methods, public engagement, TPH 40.3, community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series
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
27 May 2019 – James F. Brooks
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
23 May 2019 – David Dry
Many history teachers utilize editorial cartoons as vivid historical sources that succinctly encapsulate a range of viewpoints on a topic. Famous examples include the work of Thomas Nast at Harper’s Weekly and John Tenniel at Punch. The perspectives of editorial cartoonists in major cities such as New York, however, did not always illustrate the viewpoints of other parts of the country. Read More
21 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
community history, African American history, memory, Black museums series, collaboration, museums, education, The Public Historian, methods, TPH 40.3, public engagement
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 piece, written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, considers the collaboration between these two institutions around the interpretation of African American history within the context of the emergence of the field of Black Museums described in Jeff Hayward and Christine Larouche’s article “The Emergence of the Field of African American Museums” and African American history more generally. Read More
20 May 2019 – Ashley Bouknight, Meghan Hillman, Brian Joyner and Marla Miller
On May 7, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed H.B. 481, the “Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act,” into law in the state (to take effect January 1, 2020). The law, one of several state “heartbeat bills” passed recently, would effectively prohibit women in Georgia from accessing their right to a safe and lawful abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, at about six weeks of pregnancy. Read More
16 May 2019 – Sonya Laney
2019 annual meeting, African American history, NCPH 2019 Awards, museums, education, race, community engagement
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Sonya Laney received the New Professional award.
In 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown took the train from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the rural town of Sedalia, North Carolina. Read More
15 May 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: applications are due for the New-York Historical Society’s women’s history fellowship by mid-June; registration is now open for our webinar with AASLH on writing for history publications; check out the newest offerings from Routledge Read More
09 May 2019 – Holly A. Hartlerode 1
In a February blog post for History@Work, Kristin O’ Brassill-Kulfan asked public historians to think about the presentation of poverty in museum settings. That same month, the Wood County Historical Center (WCHC) in Bowling Green, Ohio opened a new exhibit titled For Comfort and Convenience: Public Charity in Ohio By Way of the Poor Farm. Read More
07 May 2019 – Tiya Miles 1
TPH 40.3, training, African American history, race, Higher Education, The Public Historian, libraries, gender, Black museums series, teaching, community engagement
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.
There are multiple paths to the collaborations we value as historical interpreters and practitioners. Read More