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ANNCT:HistoriCorps seeks volunteers for summer sessions working on restoration of slave quarters at Clermont Farm Slave Quarters, Berryville, Virginia, U.S.
CFP: “What does heritage change?” Association of Critical Heritage Studies third biannual Conference – June 7-10, 2016, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
DEADLINE: July 1, 2015
CFP: “Unsettling the Slave Narrative,” Biennial conference of C19: the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists – March 17-20, 2016, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. Read More
Gardens are personal. To some they are a way to grow food, to others a space of serene retreat, and to others still a background for celebrating culture and friendship. For many, they encompass a host of meanings and uses. How do we collect these ephemeral stories? Read More
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CFP: “Emerging Trends,” conference of ICOM International Committee of Marketing and Public Relations – Oct. 24-28, 2015, Yerevan, Armenia
EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 30, 2015
Undertaking international projects presents challenges beyond the normal routine of archival and secondary research, oral interviews, writing, and revising. There are new issues, such as what language will the work ultimately be published in? What time frame will accommodate the needed international travel? Read More
“What’s that? Horses?” the elderly man with the eye patch said loudly, in Norwegian, as his neighbor described the picture on the screen. “I remember when things were delivered by horse carts.” He didn’t elaborate and perhaps the memory ended there. Read More
In 2007, a professor at a Texas university began a thread on H-Oralhist, the oral history listserv. “I am up for tenure next fall,” she wrote, “and am struggling to prove to my dean that the gathering, transcribing, editing and archiving of oral history is ‘scholarship.’ Read More
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a special online section accompanying issue 37 (2) of The Public Historian, guest edited by Lisa Junkin Lopez, which focuses on the future of historic house museums. The contributions in this section highlight the voices of artists who engage with historic house museums as sites of research, exhibition, and social practice.Read More
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CFP:Topic Proposals for the 2016 National Council on Public History/Society for History in the Federal Government conference are now posted in the Public History Commons. Share advice, find co-panelists, help shape the conference program! Read More
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