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
09 January 2017 – Evan Faulkenbury 4
Several years ago, on a visit to the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina, I encountered an exhibit that asked me to participate. No, this was not high tech. No selfies, no QR codes, no downloads, just pencil and paper–yellow sticky notes. Read More
04 January 2017 – editors
As we mark the end of a tumultuous 2016 and begin what promises to be an eventful new year, History@Work’s editors are reflecting on the posts that prompted the widest readership and dialogue among our community:
Annette Gordon Reed, Hamilton the Musical: Blacks and the Founding Fathers
Matthew Exline, Looking for a Job in Public History: An Outsider’s Perspective
Cathy Stanton, Does the National Park Service have a Culture Problem? Read More
02 January 2017 – Jackie Gonzales
Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of blog posts commissioned by The Public Historian on the topic of history and the interpretation of climate change in the national parks, extending the conversation on history in the national parks during this centennial year begun in its November 2016 issue. Read More
30 December 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Award for public archives work; symposium on heritage and revolution; collection of writing on history in the Gilmore Girls; online workshops on maker spaces in museums, metals conservation, interpretive planning; dreaming of summer with field courses on heritage management in Cambodia and Islamic Persian architecture in Iran Read More
19 December 2016 – Rick Kendall 1
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of blog posts commissioned by The Public Historian on the topic of history and the interpretation of climate change in the national parks, extending the conversation on history in the national parks during this centennial year begun in its November 2016 issue. Read More
13 December 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Awards for film and other public history projects; conferences memorial art, justice and memory practices, oral history, dark tourism; summer teacher workshops for US educators; reviews of two recent Canadian environmental/public histories. Read More