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
The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, disaster planning, condolence collecting, rapid response
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
07 March 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services have all opened grant and fellowship applications due May 1; AASLH’s webinar on Cultural Heritage & Climate Science is this Thursday, March 8; Jason Steinhauer is delivering a talk at the University of Michigan (open to the public) on “The Future of (Public) History” Friday, March 9; the annual Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium, this year on “Monumental Narratives: Revisiting New England’s Public Memorials,” is Saturday, March 10. Read More
05 March 2018 – Anna Lee Hirschi
Throughout 2017, Alaskans marked 150 years since the Alaska Treaty of Cession made the territory part of the United States. From Utqiaġvik to Ketchikan, people both celebrated and mourned a year of “history and heritage” (so designated by a proclamation from the governor) in dozens of ways. Read More
02 March 2018 – Shae Cox 8
Editor’s note: This is the first 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.
On a cool, quiet morning in late April, we turned off the highway and up the winding dirt road to a green field nestled against the mountains. Read More
01 March 2018 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.
Forty years ago, G. Wesley Johnson, a historian of colonial West Africa, penned the first of what would become scores of Editor’s Corners (at the time, “Editor’s Prefaces”) to launch the first issue of The Public Historian. Read More
26 February 2018 – Lara Kelland and Sarah McCoy
Editor’s note: In this latest post in our series on teaching with articles from The Public Historian, Professor Lara Kelland and MA student Sarah McCoy discuss their respective experiences using Christine Rieser Robbins and Mark W. Robbins’s essay, “Engaging the Contested Memory of the Public Square: Community Collaboration, Archaeology, and Oral History at Corpus Christi’s Artesian Park” (The Public Historian 36, no. Read More
21 February 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Explore AASLH’s “Nightmare at the Museum” week, featuring webinars and a Twitter chat, and submit nominations for their Leadership in History awards by March 1; take part in Museums Advocacy Day February 26-27; the Museum of the City of New York is hosting “Epic Histories with Mike Wallace and Nell Irvin Painter” on February 27; applications are due soon for a two-week NEH summer institute for college and university teachers in New York and the Smithsonian’s summer Latino Museum Studies Program. Read More
19 February 2018 – Steven High and Fred Burrill
The Public Historian, deindustrialization, TPH Deindustialization issue, TPH 39.4, industrial heritage
Editor’s note: This is the final post in a series on deindustrialization and industrial heritage commissioned by “The Public Historian,” expanding the conversation begun with the November 2017 special issue on the topic.
Read MoreWhat is the role of memory and public memorializing in digesting changes so profound and traumatic [as deindustrialization]?
14 February 2018 – Brian Yates
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of posts on deindustrialization and industrial heritage commissioned by The Public Historian, expanding the conversation begun with the November 2017 special issue on the topic.
An increasingly evident legacy of deindustrialization sprawls across New York State. Read More