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
12 December 2016 – Levi Fox 2
Public historians are occasionally presented with opportunities to engage in projects relevant not just to our local communities, but of immediate importance to the entire country. Last summer, Donald J. Trump’s nomination as the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, combined with the decision to close Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal in the midst of a labor strike, offered me just such an opportunity. Read More
07 December 2016 – Meghan Hillman
The National Council on Public History is offering a new way for attendees to get involved in the 2017 NCPH Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, April 19-22, by opening our first-ever Call for Pop-Ups.
We realize this may seem counterintuitive; surely a pop-up is intended to just, well, pop up? Read More
06 December 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Award for public history work in the field of vernacular architecture; conferences in Buenos Aires, Austin, and Florence; sensory history of smell; 2016 ICOM lectures now available online Read More
05 December 2016 – Andrea Jones
Editor’s note: This is the first 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
20 November 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Awards for public history projects; oral history conference in Finland; memory studies in Amsterdam; corporate museums in Russia; spring and summer preservation classes in New Jersey, Italy, and online; new book on videogames as historical practice Read More
17 November 2016 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James Brooks’s introduction to the November 2016 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members. Readers can also find a blog post on one of the essays on the University of California Press site. Read More
11 November 2016 – editors 6
How should public historians respond to the new reality of the incoming political leadership in the United States? Representative democracy in the United States has survived the bitter partisanship of the Early Republic, the Civil War, corruption and scandals, the rise of international fascism, and the paroxysms of protest against the Vietnam War, so it is likely to endure. Read More
08 November 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Fellowships and grants for studies of race and ethnicity, invention and innovation, George Washington’s life and legacy, Holocaust studies; symposia on disability rights in history and memory, personal digital archiving, black women and activism; oral history workshops in Ankara, Washington DC, California Read More
01 November 2016 – Adina Langer
Last Sunday, October 23, 2016, marked the opening of Georgia Journeys: Legacies of World War II , a new permanent exhibit at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. The opening reception brought together educators and the interested public with nine of the twelve veterans, home front workers, and Holocaust survivors featured in the exhibit. Read More