29 August 2018 – Meghan Hillman
This spring at the 2018 NCPH Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NCPH’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force (NCPH Inclusion) held an on-the-fly session about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the public history profession. You can read more about that session in Mary Rizzo’s recent post and a June 2018 Public History News piece. Read More
23 August 2018 – Krista McCracken
conference, professional opportunities, NCPH Board Member Posts, digital media, advocacy, methods, digital history, NCPH
As you may have noticed in Public History News, NCPH is excited to announce that our first ever NCPH Twitter Mini-Con will be taking place October 18-19, 2018. The theme for the conference is (Re)Active Public History, and is rooted in a desire to critically discuss the active ways that public historians engage with the public, the past, and historical scholarship. Read More
22 August 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: The Association for Computers and the Humanities is seeking reviewers for conference submissions; the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums seeks to award Graduate Students and Emerging Museum Professionals; The National Humanities Center is offering an online course on Digital Literacy in the Classroom. Read More
21 August 2018 – Max Farley
Last July, during the final months of a summer archival fellowship at the Memphis Public Library, my academic advisor contacted me about a public history opportunity at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Read More
16 August 2018 – Marla Miller, Christine Crosby, and Stephanie Rowe
On July 29, 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece by Alice Dreger entitled “The Delicate Art of Dealing with Your Archivist” (originally behind a paywall, the article is now publicly accessible). In the article, Dreger, a historian of science and medicine, breaks down the types of archivists a researcher may encounter by a “basic taxonomy.” Read More
14 August 2018 – Mary Rizzo
I was a nineteen-year-old intern at a nonprofit organization working on educational programs. My direct supervisor was a man in his 30s. We shared an office, which meant it was hard to avoid his flirtatious comments, like when he asked me to “try out some mattresses with him.” Read More
09 August 2018 – James F. Brooks
TPH 40.3, National Museum of African American History and Culture, AAAM, collaboration, museums, race, The Public Historian
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the August 2018 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.
On October 28, 2016, the editorial team of The Public Historian waited in a crisp windy dawn for the doors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to open. Read More
08 August 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the National Council on Public History’s 2018 Twitter Mini-Con CFP is now open through September; the Museum of the American Revolution is hosting a fellowship in Women’s History; the American Library Association is holding a “Exploring Careers in Archives and Special Collection” webinar on August 16; Call for papers on “Suffrage at 100: Women and American Politics Since 1920” due Sept 15, 2018. Read More
02 August 2018 – editors
Anna Gibson Holloway is the former maritime historian for the Maritime Heritage Program of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Previously she was the vice president of collections and programs, as well as curator, of the USS Monitor Center at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Read More
31 July 2018 – Cathy Gudis
NCPH Board Member Posts, projects, advocacy, community history, sense of place, environment, NCPH, performance, heritage tourism
Editor’s note: This post continues a series featuring contributions from members of the NCPH Board of Directors.
Lately I’ve been performing my public history. Several times this spring I’ve donned a business suit and silk blouse, straightened my blonde(ish) hair, and adopted the cheerful demeanor of a corporate publicist. Read More