30 March 2015 – Robert Pomeroy
Some nineteen categories of public history programs are now offered. Many offer skills and knowledge useful for specialized businesses (archival practices, business histories, publishing). None prepare history students for general business careers. Business and History is designed to fill this void by linking historians’ methods to solving problems common to private enterprise. Read More
27 March 2015 – Frank Schubert
NCPH 2015 Awards, government, NCPH, 9/11 attacks, federal history, military history, Pentagon, writing
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by retired Department of Defense Historian, Frank Schubert, winner of the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis for his book Other Than War: The American Military Experience and Operations in the Post Cold War Decades. Read More
26 March 2015 – editors
The Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS) in South Dakota will present an innovative exhibit in early May 2015 called “Lakota Emergence.” The exhibit focuses entirely on the short Lakota emergence narrative titled “How the Lakota Came Upon the World,” published in 1917. Read More
25 March 2015 – Cathy Stanton 2
Hardball History, advocacy, methods, social justice, public engagement, profession, politics, conference, ethics
To borrow Shakespeare’s phrase, some public history work is born political, some becomes political, and some has politics thrust upon it. Whether we intentionally locate ourselves in controversial settings, have something blow up in our faces, or encounter less spectacular kinds of resistance or misunderstanding, we’re always on the edge of the political, even when we don’t set out to be. Read More
24 March 2015 – editors
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AWARD: Public History Prize from the Canadian Historical Society for work that achieves high standards of original research, scholarship, and presentation; brings an innovative public history contribution to its audience; and serves as a model for future work, advancing the field of public history in Canada. Read More
23 March 2015 – editors
Every history major is familiar with this question, and while a few undergraduates may have an answer at the ready, many aren’t exactly sure what they want to do with their degree. For the past year and a half, the NCPH New Professional and Graduate Student Committee has worked hard to create a resource to better prepare undergraduates and graduate students to enter and succeed in the public history profession:
The Public History Navigator: How to Choose and Thrive in a Public History Graduate Program
Section one of this two-part guide investigates how to choose and apply to a graduate program and encourages students to find the right program and degree for their ultimate career goals. Read More
20 March 2015 – David Rotenstein 8
memory, sense of place, gentrification, economic development, race, preservation, advocacy, art, social justice, community history
Over the past few years, I have been writing about gentrification and how it intersects with history in an Atlanta, Georgia, suburb. Twenty-five months and more than 50 interviews after I started talking with people and documenting neighborhood change in the Oakhurst area of Decatur, I met playwright Valetta Anderson, who works at Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center. Read More
18 March 2015 – Sheila Brennan
Editor’s Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Sheila Brennan, project co-director with Sharon Leon of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s Histories of the National Mall mobile website. Read More
17 March 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: The Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA) announces the release of the World-Historical Dataverse, its online archive of available datasets
CFP: The New York Council for the Humanities invites applications for its new public engagement initiative, the Public Scholars program
DEADLINE: March 25, 2015
CFP: “Africa and the First World War: Remembrance, Memories and Representations after Hundred Years” – Oct. Read More
16 March 2015 – Tim Grove
Having laid the groundwork, the History Relevance Campaign (HRC) is ready to take a big step forward and needs your help. The HRC started a little more than two years ago, with early conversations taking place at the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History in Ottawa and continuing at last year’s annual meeting in Monterey. Read More