04 May 2018 – Jerome de Groot and Tanya Evans
Editor’s Note: This post concludes a two-part series exploring international family history that began last year.
In October 2017, we held the International Family History Workshop in Manchester, UK. This event was a way to explore the rich margins inhabited by scholars and practitioners of the burgeoning phenomenon of family history. Read More
02 May 2018 – Liza Dale-Hallett
Editor’s note: This is the fifth post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
The Black Saturday Bushfires are the worst natural disaster in Australia’s recorded history. Read More
30 April 2018 – Jim McGrath
Five years ago I was watching the Boston Marathon in Coolidge Corner with my brother Brian. He had recently moved to the city and had never experienced a Marathon Monday, so the lively spectators and runners in Brookline—combined with the perfect spring weather—seemed like a fine introduction to this Boston tradition. Read More
25 April 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Virginia Tech is hosting a V.E. Day Transcribe-a-Thon; Fort Negley is premiering their Fort Negley Descendents Project oral histories in Nashville this Saturday the 28th; nominations will be due soon for the AHA’s awards; several summer workshops and institutes are now accepting applications. Read More
20 April 2018 – Rebecca Ortenberg
What did medical self-tracking look like in the past, and how will it look in the future? How do we plan for the future of our communities in a world where the climate is changing? Does science fiction influence scientific research? Read More
18 April 2018 – Miriam Melton-Vilanueva. 1
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Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of pieces focused on Las Vegas and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Las Vegas in April.
As discussed in yesterday’s post, the Las Vegas shooting happened a month before Day of the Dead. Read More
17 April 2018 – Tammi Kim
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Editor’s note: This is the fourth post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
Tragedy struck Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017, when a gunman opened fire onto a crowd of twenty-two thousand people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, injuring over five hundred people and killing fifty-eight. Read More
16 April 2018 – Tony Pierucci
There’s a gap between intellectually understanding something and actually grasping it and all of its ramifications. Two days into my new job in 2014, I fell headlong into that yawning space between intellectual understanding and grasping and spent the next few months scraping my knees and elbows clambering back out again. Read More
13 April 2018 – Debra Reid
It’s an exciting time for public historians interested in putting the farm-to-fork movement into historic context. Recent books, including Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites (2015), Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites (2017), and Public History and the Food Movement: Adding the Missing Ingredient (2018), demonstrate that public historians are bringing new insights to bear on interpreting agricultural history and food history. Read More
12 April 2018 – James F. Brooks
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I hope NCPH members and The Public Historian subscribers will enjoy our second foray into digital special editions tuned to the current moment in public history. Our Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics issue of last September responded to public debates around the removal of “Lost Cause” monuments then in the news. Read More