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08 October 2012 – editors
Editor’s note: This summer, the National Council on Public History asked public historians, including its own members but also other readers of its publications, to comment on the current state and possible future directions of The Public Historian journal and other NCPH media. Read More
03 October 2012 – editors 10
digital media, projects, public engagement, publicity, scholarship, training, social media, graduate students
~ Annie Cullen and Rachel Boyle, graduate students in Public History at Loyola University Chicago, are the creators of Public History Ryan Gosling, a blog that pairs the popular “Hey Girl” meme with public history theory. The project has reached over 60,000 people and stimulated meaningful conversation in various corners of the Internet. Read More
21 August 2012 – Vanessa Macias 1
digital media, preservation, projects, methods, public engagement, digital history, media, memory, publicity, archives, social media
Earlier this summer, as temperatures soared above 100 degrees in El Paso, I was tucked away in a cool room inside the University of Texas El Paso Library’s Special Collection department. I was working with the Casasola Photograph Collection, which holds prints and negatives from the popular Casasola Studio that was located in Downtown El Paso, Texas. Read More
17 August 2012 – editors
Each Moment a Mountain is a public history and digital humanities project that celebrates art and thought inspired by the wealth of materials housed in freely available digital archives. Showcased are poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, multimedia, comics, humanities scholarship and other digitally representable creations that engage with text or images from our featured historical archives. Read More
27 July 2012 – Leah Glaser 1
The following list was developed from the case statements of the Public History and Sustainability Working Group at the April 2012 NCPH/OAH conference in Milwaukee as well as from the 2010 Working Group that inaugurated this discussion and some other sources. Read More
03 July 2012 – Cathy Stanton 2
The National Archives at Kansas City welcomed four local Wikipedians for a Meetup and Scanathon Saturday on June 16, 2012. The meetup theme was “Between the Rivers” and focused on photos and textual holdings related to the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Read More
28 June 2012 – editors
With the completion of a year-long grant project this month, participants in Northwest Digital Archives’ Expanding Access Grant will have exposed almost 500 new collections in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana through NWDA’s database. The database, which offers access to more than 11,500 finding aids for archival collections at thirty-seven institutions, is an efficient means for collection discovery and exposure at a wide variety of institutions and repositories. Read More
19 June 2012 – editors 1
The Australian Army has a powerful story to tell. Our soldiers have contributed to shaping the Australian nation through service in war and peace operations for over 101 years. The popular focus of Australia’s military history tends to be on World War One, World War Two, Korea and Vietnam. Read More
16 May 2012 – Michael Mizell-Nelson 3
digital media, preservation, projects, advocacy, digital history, memory, environment, government, politics
The Southern landscape and many other parts of the United States remain pockmarked with state historical markers that demand reinterpretation or removal. One state historical marker noting the failure of New Orleans’ 17th Street Canal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina demonstrates that Louisiana has landed on the right side of this history. Read More
30 April 2012 – Cathy Stanton
From our colleagues at the History News Network comes this roundup of the public and digital history components of last week’s conference in Milwaukee. Noting the synergy between the realms of public and digital history, HNN’s David Walsh points out that the center of gravity in the conference blog- and tweet-ospheres was clearly with historians working in those realms, constituting “a monopoly of coverage…so complete it could warrant an anti-trust investigation,” he writes (we think that’s a good thing). Read More