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02 June 2020 – Nicolette Rohr
music history, rock history, commemoration series, archives, historic preservation, commemoration, popular culture
As I stood in a small room on Menlove Avenue in Liverpool, England, that had belonged to John Lennon, I bopped my head along to the Del-Vikings song playing, looked out at the blue suburban skies, and imagined John Lennon there, doing his dreaming, in this room at his Aunt Mimi’s. Read More
27 May 2020 – Ronald Rudin
Editors’ Note: This is one of two essays about how journalist Tony Horwitz (1958-2019) impacted the careers of public historians. You can read the first one here.
In May 2019, I was stunned to hear of the death of journalist Tony Horwitz, just as his final book, Spying on the South, was being released. Read More
14 May 2020 – James F. Brooks
heritage tourism, Editor's Corner, race, The Public Historian, TPH 42.2, music, commemoration, Immigration, public history
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online free through June 2020, courtesy of the University of California Press, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
12 May 2020 – Noah Janis
race, slavery, historic preservation, commemoration, African American history, public engagement, plantation, community history, North Carolina, interpretation
A big house. Stately trees. Curious outbuildings. In 1905, Pennsylvania-born tourist Matilda Kessinger marveled at the landscape before her, “something one always reads about but never sees.” After 18 years of traveling the South, Kessinger had finally found the one place that lived up to her romantic ideals of an antebellum plantation. Read More
14 April 2020 – Steven Bishop
At 11:00 p.m. on Friday, January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union (EU). After three and a half years of national debate and division since the Referendum on British membership in the EU, the first chapter of “Brexit” concluded. Read More
05 February 2020 – Nicole Belolan
Entering the Flight 93 National Memorial galleries in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a few years ago, my mind was on my achy muscles. My husband and I had just completed an intensive, multiday cooperage workshop at the Somerset Historical Society nearby. We don’t visit western Pennsylvania that often, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to check out the Memorial despite being pretty exhausted. Read More
17 September 2019 – Kirbie Sondreal
These past few months, I have had the pleasure of interning at the National Council on Public History (NCPH), largely working on research for the organization’s upcoming 40th anniversary in 2020. I’ve been helping to think through NCPH’s strategy for commemorating the anniversary, and also digging into the organization’s history. Read More
27 June 2019 – Yvonne Clayton, Melissa Keeling, Kathleen Melgar, Jennifer Souder, and Charles Trott
African American history, Black museums series, race, The Public Historian, music, commemoration, TPH 40.3
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More
11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration, TPH 40.3, African American history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. Read More
05 March 2018 – Anna Lee Hirschi
Throughout 2017, Alaskans marked 150 years since the Alaska Treaty of Cession made the territory part of the United States. From Utqiaġvik to Ketchikan, people both celebrated and mourned a year of “history and heritage” (so designated by a proclamation from the governor) in dozens of ways. Read More