17 June 2016 – editors
Lynn C. Kronzek is a public historian and writer with over 30 years of executive experience directing her consulting practice, as well as successful nonprofit agencies and programs. She is an award-winning author of two books and numerous articles and reports, and for seven years she also taught graduate courses in regional development and community relations. Read More
14 June 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Diversifying Wikimedia, preventing looting, celebrating 50 years of the Oral History Association, and announcing a new continuing ed program in historic preservation at Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey. Read More
10 June 2016 – Lyra D. Monteiro
public engagement, race, The Public Historian, theater, TPH 38.1, "Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton" responses
In the four months since my review of Hamilton: An American Musical was first published in The Public Historian, my ideas have been met with a wide variety of reactions.
This blog published four responses to the piece, including one by Annette Gordon-Reed, who wrote that my review was an expression of “our duty to use what we know of history and culture to comment” on artistic explorations of the past. Read More
09 June 2016 – David Rotenstein
Residents of Washington, D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighborhood are using history to plan for the gentrifying area’s future. Through a process of collaborative research and land use planning, they hope to mitigate the adverse effects of displacement, rising housing costs, and the loss of a sense of community. Read More
08 June 2016 – editors
On Monday, March 21, 2016 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia officially launched A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation, a new digital public history project that is the product of a multi-year, multi-institutional collaboration. This effort marks the beginning of a recollection of Liberia’s lost history and represents a very important step in reawakening the Liberian national consciousness. Read More
02 June 2016 – Priya Chhaya
My daily job at the National Trust for Historic Preservation doesn’t involve day-to-day interaction with the broader public. Rather I am a historiographer, in that in my work as a content manager for preservation professionals, I am constantly thinking about the methodology of history–how we protect, communicate, and talk about the past. Read More
31 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic Proposal deadline is tomorrow for NCPH conference; edited volumes and special issues focusing on identity, memory, history, heritage conservation, gender in historical film and TV; 5th annual Cotton Kingdom Symposium in Mississippi and 40th anniversary of “Roots” in Connecticut; cultural heritage summer school in Bulgaria. Read More
27 May 2016 – Suzanne Fischer
The National Council on Public History is governed like many other professional and scholarly societies. It has an elected board with officers, official standing committees, and uses parliamentary procedure along with other widely used non-profit governance tools. Today I would like to introduce you to the Nominating Committee and what we do. Read More
25 May 2016 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James Brooks’s introduction to the May 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
23 May 2016 – editors
The Internet has changed the way nearly every profession shares knowledge and communicates with the public. In the last few years archivists and historians working for the federal government have joined the conversation. In December 2015, the National Archives created History Hub, a platform for collaboration between researchers, historians, archivists, and the federal government. Read More