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education

What employers seek in public history graduates (Part 3): Skill sets beyond collections management

18 February 2013 – William Bomar 2

conference, education, employment, entrepreneurialism, funding, museums, new professionals, profession, training, What Employers Seek panel

This is the third post in a series to discuss the genesis of the idea for the “What Employers Seek in Public History Graduates” session at the 2013 National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa. Session panelists will continue to share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More

"Make it so," but how? Best practices for new public history programs

11 February 2013 – Larry Cebula 19

conference, education, methods, profession, scholarship, training, WG Best Practices

Academic interest in public history is growing, and an increasing number of history departments are looking for a public historian to train students for public history jobs. But what does it mean to start a public history program? Is it as simple as hiring a PhD with a field in public history and telling them to get going? Read More

Project Showcase: Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey Online

30 January 2013 – editors 3

archives, community history, digital history, digital media, education, international, media, projects

The Newberry Library’s Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture is pleased to announce the release of a new historical web resource, the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey, a collection of translations of approximately 50,000 newspaper articles originally published in Chicago’s ethnic press between the 1860s and the 1930s. Read More

What employers seek in public history graduates (Part 2): Professional development ideas for public historians: An online discussion in preparation for NCPH 2013

28 January 2013 – Scott Stroh 3

conference, education, employment, entrepreneurialism, funding, museums, new professionals, profession, training, What Employers Seek panel

This is the second post in a series to discuss the genesis of the idea for the “What Employers Seek in Public History Graduates” session at the 2013 National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa. Session panelists will continue share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More

Hustling historians: selling your trade

18 January 2013 – Jennifer Stevens 6

consultants, education, employment, entrepreneurialism, profession

Create a hero. Use suspense. Set scenes. That was the advice offered by renowned food politics author Michael Pollan to a room of professional historians who struggle to sell their books to a wide audience and still rely on a model of doing history created at the profession’s birth more than 100 years ago. Read More

When opportunity knocks

14 January 2013 – John Dichtl 1

education, employment, entrepreneurialism, NCPH, profession, scholarship, training

Turn to the sixth page of the 2013 Program of the American Historical Association and you will spot a genial turn of phrase: “the malleable PhD.” It refers to the idea—already engrained in the practice of public history—that graduate training need not limit one to a tenure-track teaching career. Read More

Public History & Public Humanities: A tale of two MAs

11 January 2013 – Anne Parsons 5

digital history, education, graduate students, new professionals, profession, training

In our last History@Work post, we charted the recent burst of academic public history jobs in the past few years. This year’s job market has continued the trend, with thirty jobs seeking either major or minor public history specialties posted on the Academic Wiki. Read More

What employers seek in public history graduates (Part 1): An online discussion in preparation for NCPH 2013

07 January 2013 – Bob Beatty 9

conference, education, employment, museums, new professionals, profession, training, What Employers Seek panel

This is an initial post in a series to discuss the genesis of the idea for the “What Employers Seek in Public History Graduates” session at the 2013 National Council on Public History meeting in Ottawa. Session panelists will share their thoughts on the topic in entries in the coming weeks. Read More

Project Showcase: South Carolina’s Equalization Schools

23 November 2012 – editors 3

digital media, education, human rights, memory, preservation, projects, public engagement, scholarship, social justice

In the 1950s, South Carolina embarked on a massive statewide building spree in an effort to provide “separate but equal” schools for its African American and white students. Hundreds of new elementary and high schools in the Modern style sprung up across the state. Read More

Refining the republic: A discussion on history in the National Park Service

08 November 2012 – Melinda Jette 4

education, employment, government, Imperiled Promise, methods, politics, profession, public engagement, scholarship, training

Last Friday, November 2, 2012, National Park Service personnel, public historians, academics, and graduate students from the Northeast met at the Massachusetts State Archives in Boston to discuss the Organization of American Historians’ recent report Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (2011). Read More

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