18 May 2015 – editors
methods, public engagement, sense of place, interpretation, The Public Historian, historic house museums
14 May 2015 – Linda Shopes 6
Events in Baltimore during the last couple of weeks following the death of Freddie Gray apparently after a questionable arrest have precipitated a great deal of commentary, ranging from the thoughtful to the bloviating. Likewise, interest in a more activist, civically engaged public history has been generating considerable discussion, both descriptive and hortatory. Read More
13 May 2015 – editors
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AWARD: ICOM International Committee for Audiovisual and New Technologies of Image and Sound – competition for audiovisual and multimedia projects by museums and cultural institutions.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 20, 2015
AWARD: Catherine Prelinger Award for women who have followed non-traditional scholarly paths and whose work contributes to the study or encouragement of women’s history. Read More
12 May 2015 – Rebecca Keller
Editor’s note: This piece is part one 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
08 May 2015 – editors
CALL FOR PAPERS – 2016 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History and the Society for History in the Federal Government
Baltimore, Maryland, March 16-19, 2016
Formal preservation and interpretation of the past began as a movement to celebrate great men and elite spaces. Read More
05 May 2015 – editors
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CFP: “Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World” – Oct. 1-3 , 2015, Oxford, Mississippi, U.S.
DEADLINE: June 15, 2015
CFP: “The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past” – Dec. Read More
05 May 2015 – Rhonda Sincavage 2
The Public Historian, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, National Trust for Historic Preservation
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.
When Madeline Cirrillo Archer published “Where We Stand: Preservation Issues in the 1990s,” she sought to assess the challenges facing a movement that was a quarter-century old. Read More
01 May 2015 – Richard Anderson 2
While researching at the LBJ Presidential Library over the last ten days, I’ve read numerous memos on the use of federal troops and National Guard units to quell the urban rebellions of the late 1960s. It was jarring to turn on the television Monday night and learn that Maryland’s governor had declared a state of emergency and called up the National Guard in response to the protests in Baltimore. Read More
29 April 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: “Staging Our Histories: History (a)Live: Pasts off the Page & on the Stage” – May 31, 2015, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
CONF: “Beyond the Professoriate: An online conference for PhDs in career transition” – May 2 and 9, 2015 (Online)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 29, 2015
CONF: “Archiving Women in Film & TV” – May 14, 2015, Leeds, UK
CONF: “Museums, Coastlines and the Sea” – May 20-22, 2015, Norwich, UK
CONF: “Visual Urbanism: Locating Place in Time” – May 29, 2015, London, UK
CONF: “Unofficial Histories” – June 5-6, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands
EDU: “Catching Stories” Oral History Institute – June 2-4, 2015, Gambier, Ohio, US
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 1, 2015
EDU: Bergen-Belsen International Summer School “Memory in the Digital Age” – Aug. Read More
28 April 2015 – Jeff Manuel 4
I’ve always loved a public library. The public library in my hometown was just across the street from my dad’s office. In middle school, I would walk there after school and read books until my dad picked me up at five o’clock. Read More