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labor

Editor’s Corner: new media and stone walls

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Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2025 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.

This issue presents four articles that demonstrate the diversity of public history scholarship today. Read More

“Arab American Labor” digital humanities project

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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

Let’s talk about work: an invitation to participate in the “Empowering the Public History Workplace” working group at the 2023 NCPH meeting in Atlanta

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Empowering the Public History Workplace logoFrom Amazon and Starbucks unionization drives to the waves of strikes that have roiled higher education in recent months, American workers are thinking critically about labor and moving towards action. Museum and historical site professionals are no different. Projects like Art/Museums Salary Transparency 2019, and Instagram accounts like Museumworkersspeak, and Changethemuseum, have stimulated the conversation among art museum workers, but public historians have been comparatively silent. Read More