From around the field this week: Session and workshop proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are due Sunday, July 15; applications for the Smithsonian’s Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) fellowships also due July 15; registration is now open for the Slave Dwelling Project conference; upcoming workshops on Charleston monuments aimed at a local teenage audience (July 12, 17, and 19); De Gruyter seeks online peer review on the text Public History and Schools by next week. Read More
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are available for comment through July 1; the South Asian American Digital Archive is seeking applicants to join its inaugural Archivists’ Collective; the deadline for the “Digital Hermeneutics in History” conference has been extended to June 30; AASLH presents “Speaking Truth to Power: Why Transparency and Accountability Matter” webinar on June 27. Read More
Can campus history be public history? NCPH members and others, both inside and outside of the academy, have been grappling with this question for years, considering the often-fraught town/gown and faculty/administration relationships many of our colleagues face. The ways that we answer this question have changed significantly over the last decade, however, as dozens of colleges and universities have endeavored to reckon with the reality of their histories, many in response to institutional connections to slavery. Read More
“What I would like to see in the future is more of an emphasis on cooperation between museums in the international community. In an increasingly connected world, it only serves [to] the benefit of the American public history sector to create bridges with other institutions.”Read More
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are now available for comment; Funding is available the 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums; The Oral History Center is offering an Advanced Oral History Summer Institute (Aug 6-10); Twenty-four articles from The Public Historian are available free for the rest of the year; Berghahn is releasing several new books in the “Making Sense of History Series” Read More
Editor’s note: This piece from the National Humanities Alliance is being circulated in a variety of relevant venues.
Think pieces abound on how best to make the case for the value of studying the humanities—should we as a humanities community emphasize the quite respectable career and salary outcomes of humanities majors or do we then fall into the trap of suggesting that higher education is necessary only for economic gain? Read More
From around the field this week: Join the International Sites of Conscience to talk about Museums and Guns at tomorrow’s Twitter #MuseumEdChat (May 24); @NCPHInclusion task force member Shakti Castro gives a talk on the history of the opioid crisis in NYC’s Puerto Rican and Latinx communities (May 24);Historic New England is hosting a “Caring for Municipal, Museum, and other Non-Profit Historic Properties” workshop in Massachusetts (May 25); Submit a pop-up proposal for the COSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Meeting by May 31;June is Pride Month in the United States, and many cultural organizations are featuring LGBTQ history events and talks. Read More
This issue of The Public Historian unfolds as a meditation on one of the central paradoxes in our field. Read More
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From around the field this week: Session and workshop proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are due Sunday, July 15; applications for the Smithsonian’s Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) fellowships also due July 15; registration is now open for the Slave Dwelling Project conference; upcoming workshops on Charleston monuments aimed at a local teenage audience (July 12, 17, and 19); De Gruyter seeks online peer review on the text Public History and Schools by next week. Read More 
This issue of The Public Historian unfolds as a meditation on one of the central paradoxes in our field.