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18 March 2015 – Sheila Brennan
Editor’s Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Sheila Brennan, project co-director with Sharon Leon of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s Histories of the National Mall mobile website. Read More
15 January 2015 – Steven Anderson 2
Recently I attended two “Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.” The name evoked images of committed scholars and students gathered together to pursue an all-nighter that would generate scores of new articles, hundreds of meaningful edits. What actually transpired was the opportunity to address questions of public history and online scholarly identity. Read More
02 December 2014 – Brennan Collins 1
What happens when you layer an art experiment on top of a science project on top of a walking tour on top of an archival map on top of demographic data on top of a memoir? What if the archives of multiple universities could be accessed on one platform and layered with the projects, stories, and data from researchers, teachers, students, and community groups? Read More
06 November 2014 – Mary Rizzo 1
Continued from Part 1
Our suspicions about the too-great-to-be-true Moms at the “Mich” album cover led us back to the Wikipedia entry that had started our quest for details about this little-known moment in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) history. Read More
30 October 2014 – Mary Rizzo 4
There are layers of history contained in the album cover for Moms at the “Mich.” Jackie “Moms” Mabley’s career ran from the queer Harlem comedy clubs of the 1920s to early race films, from the mid-century “chitlin’ circuit” to the family-friendly late-career movie Amazing Grace (1974). Read More
27 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
education, politics, race, graduate students, digital media, The Public Historian, preservation, slavery, projects, evaluation, advocacy, public engagement, digital history, publicity
In the final post of this series, we consider how the “Slavery at South Carolina College” project has been received. The most important effects have been local. The website has acted as a catalyst that has increased awareness of slavery at the university and an interest among students and faculty in speaking plainly about that history. Read More
24 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
The Public Historian, slavery, digital media, projects, digital history, memory, sense of place, human rights, politics, race, graduate students
Continued from Part 1.
As well as trying to convey a sense of these enslaved workers as people, the team of graduate students working on the “Slavery at South Carolina College” website also sought to connect this history to the physical landscape. Read More
22 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1
digital history, memory, archives, scholarship, education, human rights, race, graduate students, The Public Historian, digital media, slavery, projects
Written on the landscape of the University of South Carolina is an untold yet well-documented story of slavery. Enslaved people constructed the buildings of the university’s antebellum predecessor, South Carolina College, attended to the wants of white students and faculty, and performed countless tasks essential to running the college. Read More
07 October 2014 – Jean-Pierre Morin
On October 23rd, the University of Amsterdam will be hosting the first conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH), “Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered”. Several years in the making and spearheaded by the tireless efforts of Manon Parry and Paul Knevel of the University of Amsterdam and Serge Noiret, Chair of the IFPH, public history practitioners from Europe, the Americas, and Asia will come together for three days to discuss and debate what digital media brings to public history and where public history is headed in a digital world. Read More
25 August 2014 – Theresa Koenigsknecht 1
Continued from Part 1.
Navigating copyright for images is tricky and presents one of the biggest challenges in my work as an Exhibitions Researcher at the Indiana Historical Society. Although I admit to only a rudimentary understanding of copyright, this is where open access comes in very handy. Read More