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03 November 2022 – Adina Langer 1
As a member of the Atlanta Local Arrangements Committee for the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), I have an unusual opportunity. By revisiting the work we did to prepare for a meeting that didn’t happen in 2020, I am able to chart how the ensuing two years have changed public history in Atlanta and beyond. Read More
13 September 2022 – Marie Acemah and Alice Qannik Glenn
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Marie Acemah and Alice Qannik Glenn were part of the See Stories’ team that won an honorable mention in the small institution category for Outstanding Public History Project Award for their short film The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors. Read More
12 May 2022 – Yazmin Gomez
Digital humanities, covid-19, Labor History and Digital Humanities Series, Latinx history, oral history
Editors’ Note: This is the second of four essays in a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Read More
05 May 2022 – AJ Boyd
Editors’ Note: This is the first of four essays in a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Read More
07 April 2022 – Jenny Barker-Devine and Samantha Sauer
The COVID-19 pandemic requires innovative solutions for remote and socially-distanced learning. During the 2020-2021 academic year, we designed teaching kits, or mini-teaching collections, that permitted undergraduate students in an archival methods course to safely engage in hands-on activities. The kits formed the basis for several assignments throughout the semester and fostered a meaningful sense of connection among students during a highly disconnected period. Read More
18 January 2022 – Meghan Hillman
For the third year running, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is canceling its in-person conference offerings and going all-virtual. All of us have become accustomed to assessing personal and community risk during the pandemic, and an organization like NCPH must do this on a larger scale. Read More
04 November 2021 – Selena Moon
Since the spring of 2020, I have attended over a dozen virtual conferences, including two NCPH annual meetings. As a visually impaired person, I was worried about online conference accessibility, including eye fatigue and reading power points and posters. Some were fairly accessible and others were not. Read More
21 October 2021 – Maya Brooks
In March 2020, working from home, curators and archivists from the David J. Sencer CDC Museum began to plan for how best to collect the tsunami of pandemic content being generated amid the emerging COVID-19 public health crisis. A collection solely focused on CDC internal responses would be inadequate to show the breadth of the pandemic. Read More
16 September 2021 – Rebecca Bush
Editors’ Note: This is the second of a pair of posts about lessons learned from virtual conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the attractions of attending professional conferences is the opportunity to network with colleagues, old and new. The past year has made me acutely aware of the sense of community built through these experiences, whether in-person or virtual. Read More
14 September 2021 – David Glassberg and Donna Graves
social justice, climate emergency series, sense of place, collaboration, environment, sustainability, climate change, covid-19, preservation
Editor’s note: This post begins our year-long series, Our Climate Emergency, co-edited with David Glassberg and Donna Graves. The goal of this series brings together a diverse cohort of public historians, all with different perspectives and backgrounds, to think about the role of public historians and the climate crisis. Read More