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23 October 2023 – Paige Figanbaum
The tourist perception of Las Vegas is often limited to its iconic neon lights, or recently, the Knights hockey team winning the Stanley Cup championship. While The Strip has played a significant role in shaping the city, it tends to overshadow Las Vegas’ rich history and community. Read More
23 May 2023 – Danielle Afsordeh
Community engagement has become an essential part of post-custodial collections work. Through community engagement, archives can grow trust with underrepresented groups. The Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is currently employing these methods to document the history of the historically Polish Marche community in Pulaski County, Arkansas, while also working to build sustainable community relationships and trust. Read More
07 September 2021 – Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler and Paul Schadewald
community engagement, covid-19, social justice, NCPH 2021 awards, collaboration, activism, digital projects, partnership, communities
Editor’s Note: Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy won the 2021 NCPH award for best new book about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, for either 2020 or 2021.
When we submitted final page proofs for Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy in March 2020, we had no idea what was in store for the country. Read More
09 October 2020 – Rebekah Dobrasko 2
Chihuahuita is one of the oldest neighborhoods in El Paso, Texas. With only a few residential blocks, it sits at one of the city’s original border crossings into Mexico. The neighborhood, named as such because it was the first stop of immigrants from the adjacent state of Chihuahua, is hemmed in today by the border wall, railroads, and the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Border West Expressway. Read More
01 October 2020 – Hannah O’Daniel McCallon
digital collecting, archives, disaster planning, rapid response, community engagement, racial violence, pandemic, covid-19, 2020 Archives Month Series, community history
Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history in the age of COVID-19 that will be published throughout October, Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
16 May 2019 – Sonya Laney
museums, education, race, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, African American history, NCPH 2019 Awards
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
07 May 2019 – Tiya Miles 1
teaching, community engagement, TPH 40.3, training, African American history, race, Higher Education, The Public Historian, libraries, gender, Black museums series
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.
There are multiple paths to the collaborations we value as historical interpreters and practitioners. Read More
25 March 2019 – Katherine Hermes 5
digital, Indigenous People, sense of place, genealogy, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, Native American, Hartford series 2019
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
In 1999, when I was a fairly new associate professor at Central Connecticut State University, the editor of Connecticut History, Professor Bob Asher at the University of Connecticut, asked me if I knew of any interesting documents that might help increase the appeal of the journal. Read More
22 March 2019 – dann j. Broyld and Chelsea E. Echevarria 1
community history, sense of place, collaboration, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, sports
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.
Five years ago, the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) public history program began a partnership with the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) Museum & Library in Hartford to produce exhibits with its museum studies graduate classes. Read More
16 May 2018 – Ashley Maynor
Editor’s note: This is the final post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
In 2018, tragedy is visible, impossible to ignore, and happening all the time and all across the globe as History@Work’s series of posts and The Public Historian’s roundtable have so deftly illuminated. Read More