20 March 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: Apply for Library of Congress education funding; proposals for the ASEH’s second Twitter conference are due tonight; Attending SHFG’s Annual Meeting next month? Registration to their workshop for federal history jobs is included! Read More
19 March 2019 – Will Walker, Modupe Labode, Bob Weible, Sheila Brennan, Bill Bryans, and Kimberly Springle
NCPH, conference, inclusion, working group, 2019 annual meeting, digital media, AASLH, projects, methods, collaboration
For the past three years, a group of dedicated authors, editors, and advisory committee members have been working to create The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, a new digital resource co-sponsored by NCPH and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Read More
18 March 2019 – Rebecca Furer
2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, memory, sense of place, international, consultants, gender/sexuality
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
My bicycle rattles and bounces over the cobblestones in my neighborhood, and I take a quick glance behind me to make sure none of the groceries have fallen out of the basket. Read More
15 March 2019 – Priya Chhaya 2
Where I am at home, only the sparsest stars
Arrive at twilight, and then after some effort.
And they are wan, dulled by much travelling.
The smaller and more timid never arrive at all
But stay, sitting far out, in their own dust. Read More
14 March 2019 – Philip V. Scarpino 1
Editors’ and author’s note: The Council of Past Presidents of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) began conducting oral histories with founders of NCPH in 2015. This blog post, the second of a two-part series, was inspired by interviews with Dr. Read More
13 March 2019 – David Rotenstein 1
In January, History@Work published Heather Carpini’s important essay on competing histories. Carpini’s appeal for historians to dig “deeper, past the obvious sources, into the lives of the people who shaped, and were shaped by, a certain place” is an essential call to action. Read More
12 March 2019 – Nancy Finlay
2019 annual meeting, elections, Hartford series 2019, community history, archives, race, conference, gender/sexuality, Immigration
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
The Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library houses some remarkable records pertaining to Connecticut’s capital. Read More
11 March 2019 – Anne Mitchell Whisnant
One of the best things about NCPH is its openness to experimenting with new approaches to fostering conversations among public historians and facilitating reflection about public history. The NCPH “mini-con” program of small, topically focused regional gatherings, supported with funding from the NCPH endowment, epitomizes this agile and creative spirit. Read More
08 March 2019 – Jessica L. Adler
veterans, methods, NEH, memory, collaboration, museums, education, government, oral history, projects
Army nurse Norma J. Griffiths-Boris returned from Vietnam not just with haunting memories of unpreventable death—smells of burned flesh, sights of traumatic head wounds—but also with a powerful impression of her non-traditional work environment. At war, she and fellow nurses held positions of authority. Read More
06 March 2019 – Tom Van Dewark 3
In the eyes of the uninitiated, historians spend their days flitting between worn library stacks and museum backrooms. They sermonize about a long-dead past and boast a novel, but not necessarily practical set of skills. By this interpretation, the work of contemporary historians does little to impact the modern world. Read More