03 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Housing politics and the archive in London; oral history with vulnerable narrators; Massachusetts conference on advocacy for history; UX for public historians; summer courses on restoration and digital technologies for cultural heritage. Read More
02 May 2016 – editors
When 2016 began, I had never heard of Juanita Blocker, Blanche Thompson, or Helen Short. That changed once I started working on “Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers,” a digital project designed to highlight moments from ordinary lives in African American history. Read More
27 April 2016 – Jason Steinhauer 7
When I put the words “history” and “communication” together nearly two years ago, I never imagined it would elicit as much discussion and controversy as it has. Some have asked whether history communication is just public history—or an extension of public history. Read More
25 April 2016 – editors
Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History. The goal of the project is to move conversations about history from the hallways to the airwaves.
The bi-weekly program debuted on the campus radio station, KPSU, in October 2015. Read More
22 April 2016 – Brian Joyner 1
Ask people what diversity within an organization or institution means and you’ll get many answers–responses so disparate, you wonder how anyone can identify a common thread or focus.
In 2015, the National Council on Public History created a Diversity Task Force to address the paucity of professionals of color engaged in public history in general and NCPH in particular. Read More
20 April 2016 – Lara Kelland
The Public Historian, TPH 38.1, digital divide, "Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses, public engagement, community history, digital history
In 2008, the Journal of American History published a conversation among several historians regarding the future of digital history. William G. Thomas III said, “We might imagine a more proximate collaboration in which historians team up with [community] groups. The Web 2.0 movement might allow historians and the public to make history together rather than separately. Read More
19 April 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: New Routledge textbook on public history practice; reflecting on a massacre in Memphis, Coventry/Dresden reconciliation project in London, and maritime memory in Massachusetts; in search of “the middle” for 2017 National Council on Public History conference. Read More
15 April 2016 – editors
Mike Hollander is currently the acting museum director at the Wisconsin Historical Museum. He has been at the Wisconsin Historical Museum for five years and in his current position for nearly a year. Previously, Hollander was an associate curator at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for four years, followed by two years as exhibitions manager at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Read More
13 April 2016 – Deborah Boyer 1
TPH 38.1, "Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses, digital media, methods, public engagement, digital history, social media, The Public Historian
Digital technology has enabled public historians, cultural heritage professionals, and history students to collaborate with diverse audiences and explore history’s role in civic engagement in ways previously unimagined. The partnership between the Virtual City Project and the Restoration Group described by Andrew Hurley in “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology: Public History Meets the Digital Divide” demonstrates the exciting possibilities as well as challenges advanced digital tools provide, especially in the face of limited budgets, long software development cycles, and varying levels of digital access. Read More
12 April 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Registration ends tomorrow for public history boot camp on collections assessment in Camden, New Jersey, U.S.; Visitor Studies Association takes on the Data Revolution; international symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation and Digitization in Beijing; learning from LGBTQ lives in Oral History Review. Read More