13 August 2015 – editors
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AWARD: William E. “Bill” Atkinson Award for Mississippi Civil War History
NOMINATION DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2015
CFP: “The politics of memory practices: Making the past present in contemporary education” – Feb. Read More
11 August 2015 – Elizabeth Monroe 5
He was tall–but not intimidating.
He was funny–sometimes in the “bring down the house” style; sometimes just for chuckles.
He was balding–and joked about it.
He was a hard worker–which prompted others to match the pace.
He was a well-known public historian–with many publications. Read More
07 August 2015 – Sara Trevisan 5
Editor’s note: In “On Genealogy,” a revision of the plenary address delivered in October 2014 at the International Federation for Public History’s conference in Amsterdam, Jerome de Groot argues that widespread popular interest in genealogy, and the availability of massive amounts of information online, challenge established historiography and public history practice. Read More
04 August 2015 – editors 3
This is the first in a new series “Ask a Public Historian,” brought to you by the NCPH New Professional and Graduate Student Committee.
Anne Mitchell Whisnant, PhD, is Deputy Secretary of the Faculty and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read More
31 July 2015 – editors 1
The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) has launched a new podcast, Working History. Hosted by SLSA President Beth English, Working History spotlights the work of leading labor historians, activists, and practitioners focusing on the U.S. South. The podcast is available for listening on iTunes and SoundCloud. Read More
29 July 2015 – editors
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AWARDS: Organization of American Historian awards for public history – OAH Friend of History Award, Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award (Oct. 1 deadline), Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History (Jan. Read More
28 July 2015 – David Rotenstein
preservation, community history, government, The Public Historian, 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.
Between 2011 and 2014, the city of Decatur, Georgia, demolished 200 public housing units built in 1940, under the auspices of slum clearance. Read More
24 July 2015 – Richard Anderson 2
Last year, I served as research resident at the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), which focuses on the history of public housing across the country but especially in its home city of Chicago. The NPHM will one day occupy the last remaining building from the New Deal-era Jane Addams Homes in the Little Italy neighborhood. Read More
23 July 2015 – editors
With the support of a one-year Foundations planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the seven women’s colleges once known as the “Seven Sisters” recently launched College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education. College Women brings together digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs of women who attended Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University). Read More
21 July 2015 – editors
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AWARD: Midwestern History Association’s Alice Smith Prize in Public History
DEADLINE: Sept. 15, 2015
CFP: Edited collection, “Baltimore Revisited: Social History for the Twenty-First Century City”
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: Sept. Read More