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
community history, sense of place, TPH 40.4, collaboration, MDOC Q&A, museums, Montpelier, scholarship, race, The Public Historian, slavery, methods, public engagement
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
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
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
international, The Public Historian, public history, Editor's Corner, TPH 40.4, public history theory
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
10 January 2019 – Karen Whitehair 1
We all know that people are curious about the stories behind objects and the events and people those objects represent. And as public historians, we are in the business of bringing those stories to light. Yet, after doing collections management for over twenty-five years, I have learned that people are equally curious about the creative process behind our educational programs including how we document and care for the objects that serve as the foundation for that programming. Read More
09 January 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: send in your nominations for the 2019 National Preservation Awards ASAP; any students hoping to submit proposals for the SAA’s joint annual meeting with CoSA should do so by the end of the month; Rowman & Littlefield has several new public history-focused books out now Read More
08 January 2019 – Abby Klionsky
As an institution older than the nation itself, Princeton University and its history often reflect social and political trends of the broader United States, as well as its patterns of exclusion and erasure. A new digital project, called (In)Visible Princeton, is one step toward confronting some of these historical injustices and helping Princeton reconcile the values of its past with the ones it embodies today. Read More