11 December 2018 – Meredith Vasta
Museum collections are in danger. The 2011 ICCROM-UNESCO International Storage Survey found that many museums worldwide lack proper storage space for their collections and that 40% of surveyed museums may not even know what they hold. Often, there is not the support, staff, or time to keep up best practices in collections management. Read More
06 December 2018 – Seth Bruggeman and Cathy Stanton 1
Ideally, a conference theme is broad enough to encompass the breadth of a field, yet specific enough to create cohesion and perhaps spark new synergies and connections within that field. Seth Bruggeman and Cathy Stanton, Program Committee co-chairs for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, reflect on how this year’s theme of “Repair Work” was developed and how it has shaped the program. Read More
04 December 2018 – Jackie Swihart, Garrett Receveur, Sam Opsahl and Stasia Tanzer
When we were approached by NCPH to work with the Mellon-funded “OAH Amplified Initiative,” we were excited to put skills learned from our graduate classes into practice and further NCPH’s mission to build community and expand historians’ professional toolkit. Read More
27 November 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: register for Museums Advocacy Day in February and Humanities Advocacy Day in March; send in proposals for ALFHAM’s 2019 Conference in Ontario; tune in for AASLH’s and OAH’s December webinar on Native American activism. Read More
27 November 2018 – Emily Cuggy
Available to anyone with access to the internet and a pair of headphones, podcasts are arguably the most accessible medium in today’s public history landscape. They also have the potential to be the most far-reaching; unlike museums or historic sites that are largely confined to their physical location, a podcast can be transmitted to a global audience with just a few clicks. Read More
16 November 2018 – Ray Smith 1
Inside the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, you’ll find the just-opened American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE). Part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, the museum examines the sites, people, events, science, and engineering of the dawn of the atomic age. Read More
12 November 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: learn how to become a reviewer for The Public Historian; apply for the Society of Architectural Historians’ fellowships before their end-of-the-year deadline; registration is open for AASLH’s November Coffee Break webinar. Read More
08 November 2018 – Scott Miltenberger 1
I woke up with a start, before 5 a.m. just a few days ago, gripped with fear.
I had missed my deadline.
More than a month ago, I had committed to writing for History@Work but I wasn’t quite sure what topic to tackle. Read More
06 November 2018 – Christine Lamberson and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
War Stories is an NEH grant-funded project that preserves the experiences of West Texas U.S. military veterans and their family members by digitizing documents and objects as well as conducting oral history interviews. Housed in the Angelo State University history department, the project is a collaboration between faculty, students, and community members. Read More
02 November 2018 – editors
Editors’ Note: The History@Work editors thought our readers might be interested in the following conversation prompted by the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018.
Will Walker: Adina, do you think you could write something about Pittsburgh that connects to the history of U.S. Read More