26 July 2018 – Adina Langer
Editors’ Note: This is the second part of a two-part editorial conversation on interpreting immigration in public history. Part 1 is available here.
AJL: How can public historians effectively take an intersectional approach to interpreting immigration? How can we bring different audiences and stakeholders together? Read More
25 July 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the National Council on Public History’s 2019 Call for Posters is now open through October; the National Women’s History Museum is hosting a fellowship in Education and Public History; registration is now open for the “What is Public History Now” workshop at University College London; the Center for Reconciliation is holding the “An American Citizen” program on July 26. Read More
24 July 2018 – Dan Ott, Rachel Boyle and Stella Ress
economics, sustainability, profession, consultants, employment, funding, 2018 annual meeting, NCPH, working group, new professionals, Capitalism, advocacy, conference, social justice, ethics, entrepreneurialism, collaboration
“So, how do we solve the problems of capitalism?” Read More
19 July 2018 – Adina Langer 3
social justice, community history, human rights, international, politics, race, Immigration, advocacy
Editors’ Note: Four years ago, outgoing NCPH president Bob Weyeneth called on public historians to “pull back the curtain” on their process. Turning topics of contemporary relevance into public history involves numerous collegial conversations which usually remain behind the scenes. The History@Work editors thought our readers might be interested in the following conversation prompted by Adina Langer’s development of a new exhibition at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. Read More
17 July 2018 – Megan Smeznik
digital media, Pedagogy, digital history, Digital Literacy, education, Digital humanities, training, instruction
“Click here. Click once more. And once more…” As an educational technologist at an undergraduate liberal arts college, I hear these words frequently. I often call on my skills as a public historian when it comes to solving problems related to digital pedagogies and understanding the context of technology in the classroom and beyond. Read More
11 July 2018 – editors
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
26 June 2018 – Kimber Heinz
sense of place, collaboration, politics, race, conference, incarceration, advocacy, social justice, community history, NCPH 2018 Awards, memory
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of pieces by recipients of NCPH’s 2018 best in public history awards.
From this year’s annual conference, one thing seems clear: as public historians, we want our work to make a difference. Read More
20 June 2018 – editors
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
20 June 2018 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
projects, working group, methods, campus, community history, sense of place, collaboration, education, graduate students, slavery
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
18 June 2018 – Kathryn E. Wilson
facilitated discussion, methods, public engagement, education, The Public Historian, teaching, TPH teaching series
Editor’s note: In this final post in our series on teaching with articles from The Public Historian, Kate Wilson discusses her experiences using Ruth Abram’s essay, “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in Action at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum” (The Public Historian 29, no. Read More