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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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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 
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. 
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: