05 April 2018 – Kate Johnson and Marie Pellissier
Our working group, “Crossing the Line: Facilitating Digital Access to Primary Sources,” started with a simple premise. If, as Sheila Brennan states, digital humanities projects are not “public” projects merely by virtue of their being accessible online, how then can we craft them so as to place public engagement at the center? Read More
04 April 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: PubComm 2018 (Public History Community Forum on Racism and Resistance) is tomorrow, April 5, in Philadelphia; “Reap the Whirlwind: A Holistic Approach to Museum Internships” webinar from the Virginia Association of Museums, is next Monday, April 9; AASLH’s Call for Posters for their 2018 meeting (an event sponsored by NCPH) is now open through June 10; The Public Historian is open-access for the month of April. Read More
30 March 2018 – Deirdre Clemente
community history, sense of place, environment, profession, employment, conference, 2018 annual meeting, Las Vegas Series 2018
Editor’s note: This is the fourth 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.
I grew up scouring the grasses around the Juniata River for arrowheads and I hunted down second-hand fur coats in every rusty, steel town in western Pennsylvania. Read More
26 March 2018 – Michael Green
politics, conference, 2018 annual meeting, preservation, Las Vegas Series 2018, community history, sense of place, museums, government, economic development
Editor’s note: This is the third 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.
If NCPH members want proof that the mob no longer has power in the city hosting their conference this year, try to find a 99-cent rib special. Read More
21 March 2018 – HIstorians for a Better Future 6
Members of Historians for a Better Future planned to encounter many personalities along the sidewalk when we set up in front of the Women of the Confederacy monument at the State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 8, 2017. Read More
21 March 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is holding its spring business meeting, open to the public, on March 22; the Newport Historical Society and Rhode Island Historical Society are hosting the public history panel “Myth, Memory, History and Heritage” on March 23; sign up now for a March 24 workshop on 18th century women’s clothing in Baltimore; the AASLH’s online course on Museum Education and Outreach starts March 26. Read More
16 March 2018 – Billy Marino
2018 annual meeting, Las Vegas Series 2018, preservation, community history, memory, sense of place, environment, sustainability
Editor’s note: This is the second 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.
Cold War-era historic sites challenge public historians to strike a balance between the need for preservation and the need for continued use. Read More
14 March 2018 – Roger Christman
Editor’s note: This is the third 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.”
Eleven years ago, Seung Hui Cho killed thirty-two people and injured at least seventeen others before turning the gun on himself. Read More
09 March 2018 – Denise Meringolo
As the number of public history programs continues to grow, public history educators compete for students, grants, and partners. We flood cultural organizations with interns and redundant projects. Budgetary uncertainty forces educators working in state systems to make competing claims of primacy and excellence, pitting our programs against one another. Read More
07 March 2018 – Louise Shaw
rapid response, The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, disaster planning, condolence collecting
Editor’s note: This is the second 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.”
As curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, I collect, present, and interpret the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s history. Read More