22 May 2015 – Jean-Pierre Morin
As employees of municipal, local, state, provincial, and federal governments, government historians have been a core group of the National Council on Public History since its founding. Yet, for a variety of reasons, these practitioners have at times felt “out on the edge” within the organization. Read More
21 May 2015 – Linda Shopes
Editors’ Note: Readers can find Part 1 here. This post continues a short list of what history, public and otherwise, as well as allied disciplines, can do in the face of events like those that have engulfed Baltimore.
Third, beyond documentation, history can support change in the present. Read More
20 May 2015 – editors 2
18 May 2015 – editors
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CFP: Society of Architectural Historians 2016 Annual International Conference – April 6 -10, 2016, Pasadena, California, U.S.
DEADLINE: June 9, 2015
CONF: “Collecting and Composing: An Oral History & Music Workshop” – June 23-28, 2015, Hudson, New York, U.S. Read More
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