Tag Archive
27 August 2024 – Bailey Brown and Lindsey Waldenberg
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. Read More
07 February 2023 – Sarah H. Case
2022 Annual Meeting, memory, Poverty, archives, museums, The Public Historian, Digital humanities, American Revolution
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2023 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
This issue begins with Jean-Pierre Morin’s “Considering the Revolution: The Identities Created by the American Revolutionary War,” the second in a five-part series that arc from the origins to the legacies of the American Revolution (see part 1, “Considering the Revolution: Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawai’i, and the Indigenous Plateau” and “Decolonizing Museums, Memorials, and Monuments” in the November 2021 issue). Read More
26 May 2022 – Laura De Moya Guerra
Editors’ Note: This is the final 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
19 May 2022 – Sarah Coffman and Elissa Branum
Editors’ Note: This is the third 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
12 May 2022 – Yazmin Gomez
Labor History and Digital Humanities Series, Latinx history, oral history, Digital humanities, covid-19
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
01 December 2020 – Michael Sewell and Steven Bishop 1
Editor’s note: How have local communities interacted with historians during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic? This post introduces the History Indoors project by two graduate students at the University of Essex. History Indoors helps bring a wide array of historical topics to a general audience around the UK and the world. Read More
24 November 2020 – Alea Henle
historical societies, research, collections management, archives, material culture, Digital humanities, collections
In 1814, philanthropist Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) spearheaded the establishment of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. One of his earliest actions, as president and librarian, was to create and maintain the society’s records. He dedicated a volume to documenting gifts, and decided what information to include in the records, for the sake of posterity. 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