29 December 2015 – editors
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CFP: MuseumsEtc invites submissions for inclusion in “The Museum Blog Book,” a Spring 2016 collection of work from museum blogs
DEADLINE: Jan. 11, 2016
CFP: “The Museum Boom & Beyond: Concepts and Methods in Analyzing Cultures of History in Poland” – April 28-29, 2016
DEADLINE: Jan. Read More
16 December 2015 – editors
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CFP: “Place,” North Carolina State University Graduate Student History Conference – April 2, 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
DEADLINE: Jan. 11, 2016
CFP: The Museum and Exhibition (MUSE) Studies Publication of the University of Illinois at Chicago invites you to submit art, essays, creative writing, interviews, poetry, love letters and any other creative form analyzing, critiquing, and space making for new thinking about museums and exhibitions. Read More
10 December 2015 – Sam Imperatrice and Mary Rizzo 1
advocacy, gentrification, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
In this latest post in our series on the National Historic Preservation Act, Mary Rizzo, former co-editor of The Public Historian and current assistant professor of professional practice at Rutgers University-Newark, interviews Sam Imperatrice about the article “Geographies of Displacement: Latina/os, Oral History, and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District,” by Nancy Raquel Mirabel. Read More
09 December 2015 – editors
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AWARD: Donald Peterson Student Travel Award from Society for American Archivists
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2016
CFP: “Museum Authenticity in the Age of Participation,” Eastern Illinois University Historical Administration Program Association conference – April 9, 2016, Charleston, Illinois, U.S. Read More
08 December 2015 – Will Walker
As I’ve read obsessively the news of campus protests these past few weeks and shared support for protesters both publicly on social media and privately in email conversations with college administrators, I’ve been challenged to think deeply about my position as both a public historian and a faculty member at a state university. Read More
03 December 2015 – Pete Anderson 1
In early October, a group of active historians met in London, Ontario, to discuss the future of their project. Active history seeks to strengthen the connection between the past and the present, often intervening in contemporary policy and cultural debates. Read More
26 November 2015 – Adina Langer
Like so many of my friends and colleagues across the full spectrum of the historical profession, I am thankful for having known Cliff Kuhn. His death three weeks ago took us all by surprise. Cliff radiated vitality–intellectual, spiritual and personal. He was known for cycling every morning from his home in Atlanta’s Virginia Highland neighborhood to his office at Georgia State University in the heart of downtown. Read More
25 November 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: “Cultural Heritage Diplomacy: How Nations use Historic Sites for Political Ends” – Nov. 25, 2015, Montréal, Québec
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ANNCT: “Immigration Records & Privacy at the National Archives” talk by William Creech – Dec. Read More
24 November 2015 – Kathy Shinnick
As public history consultants, we are spread all over the nation. We complete projects in small towns, back rooms of museums, major cities, and community organizations. We come together one time a year at the National Council for Public History’s annual conference. Read More
19 November 2015 – Claire Hayward
In August 2015, a museum that had originally been billed as “the first women’s museum in the UK” opened instead as the Jack the Ripper Museum on Cable Street in the East End of London. ‘Jack the Ripper,’ an anonymous figure who murdered and mutilated at least five women in the late nineteenth century, has become the focus of a museum that had once been promised to represent and celebrate untold histories of women. Read More