National Park Service history webinars: A short survey

02 February 2016 –

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The Organization of American Historians Committee on National Park Service Collaboration is hosting a short survey to determine interest in developing a series of webinars. These webinars would address a perceived need for information about NPS and its history with respect to such topics as contracting, job pursuits, and research and writing. Read More

A public history role for building bike lanes in cities?

28 January 2016 –

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Gentrification: It’s not just for sociologists and anthropologists any more. Though historians have been making inroads documenting and interpreting gentrification and displacement, there are abundant opportunities for historians to make significant contributions in public policy and planning. One recent kerfuffle involving proposed bicycle lanes and African American churches in Washington, DC, provides a window into how a better understanding of the past could have defused a racially and class charged debate over painted lines in public spaces.

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Professional opportunities Jan. 19, 2016

20 January 2016 –

newspaper-in-fieldFrom around the field this week: Conference calls for nursing/healthcare history, African-American museums and genealogy, the future of urban preservationism, plus awards for archivists and their advocates.

NOTE: This weekly listing of items of possible interest to practicing public historians will now appear as a regular blog post on History@Work rather than in the “News” sidebar as previously. Read More

Professional Opportunities Jan. 13, 2016

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newspaper-in-fieldFrom around the field this week: extended deadline for international award for technology exhibits, a chance to weigh in on women’s history scholarship at the U.S. National Women’s History Museum, and more.

NOTE: This weekly listing of items of possible interest to practicing public historians will now appear as a regular blog post on History@Work rather than in the “News” sidebar as previously. Read More

Professional opportunities Jan. 6, 2016

06 January 2016 –

To submit an item for the News Feed, send an email to: news[at]publichistorycommons.org

CFP: “Oral Narratives and the Politics of History Making” International Oral History Conference – Dec. 6-8, 2016, Jerusalem, Israel
DEADLINE: March 15, 2016

EDU: The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) welcomes applications for the 2016 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents – July 31-August 4, 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Read More

History Communicators: The next step

04 January 2016 – 1

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In January 2015, I introduced the idea of History Communicators on this blog. “History Communicators, like Science Communicators,” I wrote then, “will advocate for policy decisions informed by historical research; step beyond the walls of universities and institutions and participate in public debates; author opinion pieces; engage in conversation with policymakers and the public; and work diligently to communicate history in a populist tone that has mass appeal across print, video, and audio. Read More

I, Too, Sing America: Integrating the voices of all Americans in historic preservation

01 January 2016 – 10

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Editor’s note: This post concludes a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a part article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation. 

Historic preservation exists to tell stories of our journeys as a people and as a nation, but somehow along the way the stories of America’s African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American communities are erased or obscured as historians and preservationists tell the great American story. Read More