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28 July 2020 – Michelle McClellan, Carolyn Barske Crawford and Leah Glaser
Authors’ Note: This is the third of three posts resulting from discussions of our 2019 NCPH annual meeting working group on improving existing National Register nominations. (The first post highlighted technical matters and the second discussed underrepresented communities and the integrity criterion.) Read More
21 July 2020 – Sarah Kautz, Rachel Leibowitz and Joanna Doherty
National Register of Historic Places, historic preservation, inclusion, working group, 2019 annual meeting
Authors’ Note: This is the second of three posts resulting from discussions of our 2019 NCPH annual meeting working group on improving existing National Register nominations. (The first post focused on technical matters.) In this series, we’ll highlight best practices we developed—using our working group member case statements as a starting point—to encourage frequent revisions of National Register nominations. Read More
14 July 2020 – Heather Lynn Carpini
National Register of Historic Places, historic preservation, inclusion, working group, 2019 annual meeting
Authors’ Note: This is the first of three posts resulting from discussions of our 2019 NCPH annual meeting working group on improving existing National Register nominations. In this series, we’ll highlight best practices we developed—using our working group member case statements as a starting point—to encourage frequent revisions of National Register nominations. Read More
08 November 2019 – Chel Rose Miller 1
profession, employment, conference, gender/sexuality, ethics, 2019 annual meeting, #MeToo, advocacy, bystanders
The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, including in scholarly and professional communities. The last two years have shown us that the public history community is no exception. Read More
31 October 2019 – Nick Sacco 2
National Park Service, working group, 2019 annual meeting, methods, historiography, public engagement, sense of place, interpretation
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts reflecting on a working group that met at the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut.
In his 1957 book Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden attempted to provide one of the first working definitions of what it means to interpret history and nature to public audiences. Read More
19 September 2019 – Allison Horrocks 1
historiography, cultural heritage, public programming, interpretation, authority, National Park Service, shared authority, public history, working group, 2019 annual meeting
For the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, I had the pleasure of coordinating the Interpreting Our Heritage in the 21st Century working group with public historian Nick Sacco. Our goal was to take a fresh look at Freeman Tilden’s foundational text, Interpreting Our Heritage (1957), and to consider whether it required “repair work,” which was the annual meeting’s theme. Read More
18 June 2019 – Chip Colwell
decolonization, artifacts, 2019 annual meeting, Indigenous People, museums, NCPH 2019 Awards, conference, American Indians, finance
Editors’ Note: This is the third in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Chip Colwell received the NCPH Book Award for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Read More
13 June 2019 – Dean Herrin
2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, Indigenous People, American Indians, maritime history, tours
During the annual meeting of the National Council for Public History in Hartford in March, I had the good fortune to be on the tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, and of Mystic Seaport, both in eastern Connecticut about an hour’s drive from Hartford. Read More
30 May 2019 – Joan Zenzen
2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, gun violence, hackathon, National Park Service, plenary, NCPH Board Member Posts
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two that will highlight reflections on events at the March 2019 National Council on Public History annual meeting.
I felt honored and humbled. Here I sat with a few hundred fellow public historians in a historic church listening to community members share their hopes about how a new national park might collaborate with their neighborhoods and help make a positive difference to life in Hartford, Connecticut. Read More
16 May 2019 – Sonya Laney
African American history, NCPH 2019 Awards, museums, education, race, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Sonya Laney received the New Professional award.
In 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown took the train from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the rural town of Sedalia, North Carolina. Read More