Tag Archive
05 October 2020 – Elias Levey-Swain and McLain Sidmore
Historians for Hire is a civic engagement course at Carleton College that partners students with local public history projects. It seeks to illuminate the value of community involvement in the history curriculum and elicit student reflection on the significance of their work as aspiring historians. Read More
02 October 2020 – Jennifer Black, Abigail Gautreau, William Stoutamire and Katie Stringer Clary
Editors’ Note: This post from the facilitators of the NCPH Teaching Public History Online Working Group summarizes the group’s efforts to develop best practices and lesson plans for teaching public history online during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on the working group and the materials they developed, go here. Read More
01 October 2020 – Hannah O’Daniel McCallon
rapid response, community engagement, racial violence, pandemic, covid-19, 2020 Archives Month Series, community history, digital collecting, archives, disaster planning
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
30 September 2020 – Jordan Meyerl and Katy Kole de Peralta
Editors’ Note: This is the third of three essays about the COVID-19 collaborative archiving project A Journal of the Plague Year: The COVID-19 Archive. The first essay introduces the project. The second provides insights into teaching the Archive. This one addresses issues related to archival silences. Read More
24 September 2020 – Juilee Decker and Cheryl Jiménez Frei
Editors’ Note: This is the second of three essays about the COVID-19 collaborative archiving project A Journal of the Plague Year: The COVID-19 Archive. The first essay introduces the project. The next will address issues related to archival silences. Read More
17 September 2020 – Rebecca S. Wingo
Editors’ Note: This is the first of three essays about the COVID-19 collaborative archiving project A Journal of the Plague Year: The COVID-19 Archive. The next two essays address teaching with the project and issues in archival silences. Read More
10 September 2020 – David Rotenstein
public engagement, community history, walking tours, digital history, covid-19, sense of place, teaching public history, collaboration, race
I teach a seminar on ethnography and community engagement in Goucher College’s graduate historic preservation program. Last year, I took my students to Baltimore’s Otterbein neighborhood, a historic district and one of the nation’s earliest urban homesteading neighborhoods.[i] The COVID-19 pandemic pushed our summer term online and that meant no class field trip to Baltimore, an annual program tradition. Read More
01 September 2020 – Jade Ryerson and Katherine Crawford-Lackey
In the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the techniques public historians use to engage communities have become increasingly digital, as have the methods we use to communicate with each other. Because COVID-19 continues to spread in the United States, public history organizations should consider how to offer enriching remote internship opportunities that are mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Read More
11 August 2020 – Tracy Neumann 1
Grassroots protest and union activism have flourished in the decade since the Great Recession. Labor and working-class history has flourished, too, and is experiencing a resurgent interest among scholars and public historians alike. At our particular historical moment, shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests against state violence and white supremacy, labor history provides context for urgent contemporary concerns about public health, workplace health and safety, economic inequality, structural racism, and social welfare. Read More
02 July 2020 – Meghan Hillman and Stasia Tanzer
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts about the National Council on Public History’s finances and plans for programming.
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is a membership and professional organization, and so we are only as strong as our members; we are only as healthy as the field of public history is. Read More