18 February 2019 – Rebecca Conard 1
Editors’ Note: This In Memoriam also appears in the current NCPH Newsletter and The Public Historian, Vol. 41, No. 1.
G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., founding editor of The Public Historian and a founding member of the National Council on Public History, died November 16, 2018. Read More
15 February 2019 – editors
public engagement, community history, sense of place, collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods
Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will learn more about what went into the new permanent exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour (MDOC) at James Madison’s Montpelier (JMM) in Virginia. Read More
08 February 2019 – editors
collaboration, TPH 40.4, museums, MDOC Q&A, scholarship, Montpelier, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place
Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will learn more about what went into the new permanent exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour (MDOC) at James Madison’s Montpelier (JMM) in Virginia. Read More
06 February 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: ASALH’s CFP for their annual meeting and conference is now open; make sure to get your nominations for AASLH’s Leadership in History Awards in by March 1; registration has been opened for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Museum Hue’s training for historic sites Read More
04 February 2019 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan 4
In his Congressional Gold Medal acceptance speech from 2013, Dr. Muhammad Yunus quipped that one day “soon we will visit the museum to see poverty.” Given that public historians interpret and document other social ills in museums and historic sites— sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism—where does poverty and its attendant questions of class fit in our interpretive plans? Read More
01 February 2019 – editors
methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, TPH 40.4, collaboration, MDOC Q&A, museums, Montpelier, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery
Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will learn more about what went into the new permanent exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour (MDOC) at James Madison’s Montpelier (JMM) in Virginia. Read More
29 January 2019 – Heather Lynn Carpini 3
As historians working in the field, consultants often see value in objects, buildings, landscapes, and locations that may be overlooked by the general public. Living in a community, people can pass a place daily without knowing anything about its history. Or they may have heard the cursory basics—facts that tie it to a major person or event in the town or region. Read More
25 January 2019 – editors
The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement, community history, sense of place, TPH 40.4, collaboration, MDOC Q&A, museums, Montpelier, scholarship, race
Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will learn more about what went into the new permanent exhibition “The Mere Distinction of Colour” (MDOC) at James Madison’s Montpelier (JMM) in Virginia. Read More
23 January 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: read on to learn more about the Museum and Library Services Act of 2018; Mellon/ACLS’ postdoctoral fellowships in the public sector are open for applications; send in your proposals for the Kentucky Council on Archives Spring Meeting by the beginning of March Read More
16 January 2019 – James F. Brooks
public history theory, international, The Public Historian, public history, Editor's Corner, TPH 40.4
Editor’s note: We publish “The Public Historian” editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2018 issue of TPH here. This is adapted from the print edition. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More