01 February 2017 – Cathy Stanton
Historians often remark that we need to do a better job of letting others in on the ways we explore and understand the past. (That was the impetus for a thought-provoking series from The Public Historian and History@Work a couple of years ago.) Read More
31 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: US oral historians ruled exempt from IRB oversight; conference on museums in Arabia; labor history meets public history at Detroit conference; all you ever wanted to know about the US National Park Service (in one conference workshop); summer archaeology and preservation field school at historic miners’ village in Pennsylvania Read More
31 January 2017 – Lachlan MacKinnon
The Public Historian, deindustrialization, TPH Deindustialization issue, TPH 39.4, industrial heritage
Editor’s note: This is the fifth 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.
In the late nineteenth century, Cape Breton, the island on Canada’s east coast at the northern tip of the province of Nova Scotia, was rich in coal and ripe for resource extraction. Read More
30 January 2017 – Stephanie Rowe
On Saturday, November 12, 2016 the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Public History MA program hosted over one hundred students and faculty from seven states in Indianapolis for our biennial Careers in History Symposium. Read More
25 January 2017 – Denise Meringolo
Typically, the origins of public history education have been traced either to early twentieth-century applied history programs or to the first named public history program established in the 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Neither group of founders understood public history as a distinct field. Read More
25 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Award spotlighting unrecognized work on behalf of archives; call for posters at international public history conference in Italy; edited volume on “The Museum as Experience” seeks contributions; apply to Museum Camp in California; summer trip to study history and memory in Athens; recent book on the politics of mourning at Arlington National Cemetery Read More
19 January 2017 – Tammy Gaskell 1
Public history education is exploding, with new graduate and undergraduate programs appearing every year–or so it seems. The National Council on Public History has long supported the professionalization of public history education by developing best practices documents for public history programs and other resources for educators. Read More
18 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Awards for archivists and public history in the American West; conference calls for Underground Railroad history, urban heritage studies, maritime heritage; lots of online and f2f workshops for museum managers and curators; journal issue on the public humanities Read More
11 January 2017 – History Relevance Executive Committee
The value of history–both understanding historical events and the process by which we analyze them–has been demonstrated many times in 2016. The skill at the very core of the research process, critical thinking, cannot be overemphasized in today’s society. Evidenced-based inquiry and discussion is more important than ever. Read More
10 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: A new issue of Public History Review; revival of Public Scholar Program at the US National Endowment for the Humanities; labor history conference in Detroit takes public history as its theme; course on American Architectural History in New Jersey Read More