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
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
From around the field this week: Conferences on migration in Argentina, automotive heritage in Pennsylvania, radical libraries and archives in London; award for history in U.S. National Park Service; new online program in historic preservation; reviews of recent books on maritime commemoration, postwar Japanese memory, sex museums Read More
Morgen Young is a project historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA). She recently joined the firm’s Portland, Oregon office, after running her own consulting business for seven years. Her work focuses on exhibit development, oral history, digital history, and historic preservation. Read More
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James Brooks’s introduction to the August 2016 issue of The Public Historian. This digital version of the piece differs slightly from the print edition. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.Read More
A year ago, on a hot, sweltering Indiana day, the search committee for the next executive director for the National Council on Public History met in person for the first time. The task we faced, led by chair Bill Bryans, seemed monumental: to not only find a new executive director who respects and understands the complex history of NCPH, but one who also recognizes that the organization is undergoing tremendous change and growth, and who will become a collaborative colleague within the history department at the Indiana University (IU) School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), NCPH’s host university. Read More
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site recently launched Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration, the first major museum exhibit to tackle this civil rights issue.* Prisons Today asks open-ended questions and encourages dialogue among visitors about America’s past and present prison systems. Read More
From around the field this week: Aug 20 workshop on enhancing online access to oral histories, conference on representing perpetrators of violence, public history and/as labor and rural history, public history working group in New York City launches new conference. Read More
On July 4, about 60 people attended a party thrown by Washington, DC activists trying to save a historic water filtration plant. The event was held in a row house in the city’s gentrifying Bloomingdale neighborhood, which I wrote about in a recent History@Work post. Read More
From around the field this week: Understanding places and approaches to the past at two U.K. conferences; audiovisual heritage in Washington, D.C.; new issue of Museum & Society on reimagining collections for diverse audiences Read More
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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 
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James Brooks’s introduction to the August 2016 issue of The Public Historian. This digital version of the piece differs slightly from the print edition. The 