25 June 2015 – editors
On October 15, 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson remarked: “When the historians of tomorrow write of today, they will say of the 89th Congress … ‘This was the great Congress.’” The president was elated that between January 1965 and December 1966, the 89th US Congress had enacted the most extensive legislative program since the New Deal. Read More
23 June 2015 – editors
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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
CFP: “Environmental History and its Publics,” American Society for Environmental History conference – March 30-April 3, 2016, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Read More
22 June 2015 – William Willingham
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
19 June 2015 – Emily Oswald 3
“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
17 June 2015 – editors
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AWARD: Mountain-Plains Museums Association (western US) offers awards for individuals and institutions
DEADLINE: June 22, 2015
CFP: Open Source Software and Tools for the Library and Archive – online presentations sought for Sept. Read More
17 June 2015 – Cliff Kuhn 1
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
10 June 2015 – Faheem Majeed
art, public engagement, community history, sense of place, interpretation, The Public Historian, historic house museums
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
09 June 2015 – editors
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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
08 June 2015 – Jennifer Stevens 3
As policy makers and politicians debate and make important policy decisions, they are constantly dealing with the past. They must consider what has been tried and failed, and what options were overlooked and why. These are questions that require an understanding of history. Read More
04 June 2015 – editors 1
Last year, the National Council on Public History decided to pilot an optional topic proposal deadline for annual meeting session, workshop, and working group submissions (see last year’s announcement here), and it was a success. Of the 55 topic submissions received last year, 42 were resubmitted as full proposals, and 20 of those were accepted onto the program. Read More