11 November 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: History library and research fair for job-seekers, researchers, and students at Senate House in London, featuring more than 30 libraries, archives, and research organizations plus panels on methods and collections – Nov. Read More
10 November 2015 – Thomas J. Brown
Ashley Halsey Jr. was frustrated when the civil rights movement defeated the Lost Cause. The United States Civil War Centennial Commission had invited the Saturday Evening Post associate editor and Civil War buff to be the featured speaker at the 1961 centennial commemoration of the firing on Fort Sumter in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Read More
06 November 2015 – Brenda Barrett 1
preservation, community history, race, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, American Civil War
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.
The saga of the Locust Grove Cemetery, an African American burial ground in the small borough of Shippensburg, is one that is repeated across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Read More
03 November 2015 – editors
AmericanScience is a team blog tracking all things science–both contemporary and historical. Graduate student- and early career-editors (as well as guest posters) bring a historical perspective to current issues in American science and technology–from the Anthropocene and climate change to Thomas Kuhn and Uber. Read More
29 October 2015 – Caroline Nye Stevens
Over the course of ten weeks this past spring, I explored, blogged, and tweeted my way through twenty of Providence’s endangered properties. The challenge came to me by way of the Providence Preservation Society (PPS), which is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their Most Endangered Properties (MEP) program this year. Read More
28 October 2015 – editors
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AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government offers two book awards – Henry Adams Award for a book about U.S. federal government by a non-federal-government employee and George Pendleton Award for a book written by a current or former federal government historian or sponsored by a government history office. Read More
27 October 2015 – Elizabeth Catte
Editor’s note: This post continues our series addressing recent debates over Confederate memory and symbolism in the wake of the shooting of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Here is the opening post for the series. Read More
21 October 2015 – editors
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CFP: 3rd International Public History Conference – July 7-9, 2016, Bogotá, Colombia
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Nov. 15, 2015
CFP: #SHS40 – Social History Society 40th Anniversary Conference – March 21-23, 2016, Lancaster, U.K. Read More
14 October 2015 – editors 1
To moviemakers, history is an endless source of human drama.
To historians, movies are a powerful art form that can accurately represent the past, seriously distort it–or both.
As historians and other professionals concerned with presenting or preserving history, you have a perspective on the role of history in movies that is critically important. Read More
13 October 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: “Marx and the Environment: Problems and Solutions” seminar from History and the Environment/Raphael Samuel History Centre – Oct. 15, 2015, London, UK (see Raphael Samuel History Centre’s Facebook page for details)
CFP: Museum International seeks contributions for Vol. Read More