13 October 2016 – editors 2
Zach Hottel is currently the archivist for the Shenandoah County Library System in Virginia. He graduated from Appalachian State University with an MA in public history in May 2015. There, he worked with the university library’s W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Read More
11 October 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Presentation on the heritage of play; call for essays on ruin porn; feminism and museums; conference on living history in modern times; visitor studies conference; oral history conference on belief and faith Read More
11 October 2016 – editors 2
Bruce G. Harvey is an independent consulting historian and documentation photographer based in Syracuse, New York. A consultant for more than twenty years, his work includes a wide range of cultural resources projects, including National Register evaluations, administrative histories, cultural resources agreement documents, and Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) documentation that involves historic narratives and large-format photography. Read More
27 September 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: The art of the repeat photograph; public humanities and disability rights; bringing affect into critical studies of heritage; new approaches to histories of slavery and race in the Atlantic world; recent books on Holocaust remembrance and historiography
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26 September 2016 – editors
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is an audio-documentary project that allows people to hear stories from the past in the exact location where they occurred. The project, which debuted in 2015, trades the traditional historical plaque for mobile phone technology. Read More
20 September 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Conferences on history education, Southern U.S. labor history, collecting and displaying New World objects; workshops and webinars on interpreting difficult histories, historic district preservation, museum origins; new museum journal at University of Illinois Read More
15 September 2016 – Jonathan Schaffer 2
I recently returned from a visit to the former Jewish shtetls of my ancestors now located in present-day Ukraine. This was my second trip in less than a decade, but it felt very different from my initial experience in 2010. When I first visited, I was overwhelmed by the emotional impact of seeing firsthand once flourishing communities relegated to historical oblivion. Read More
13 September 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Nature, race, and diversity in US National Park Service; storytelling in archives and museums; the color of money in the Cotton Kingdom; approaches to perpetrator studies in the Netherlands; new journal issues and book on postindustrial casino capitalism Read More
08 September 2016 – Joseph Locke and Ben Wright
The American Yawp, the profession’s first multi-authored open textbook, contains thirty chapters and almost 300,000 words. It covers everything from indigenous creation stories to Instagram. How, with historical input accelerating and the scope of scholarship expanding, could any individual or small group of historians hope to capture the breadth of American history and to do so as expansively as a textbook demands? Read More
06 September 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Canadian historians ponder sesquicentennial; practitioners reinvent historic house museums; iconic British heritage site focuses on bridging; and awards for US federal history exhibits and applied anthropology students Read More