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30 October 2025 – Kevin Lukacs 3
Horror is a rich genre full of meaning for many people, including non-traditional museumgoers. A recent study showed that 35% of respondents felt museums were “not for people like me.” Even I, a museum professional, have often felt the same way. Read More
09 September 2025 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 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.
The four articles in this August issue examine preservation in many aspects, including the racial implications of historic commemoration and preservation; preservation of historical sites affected by the COVID-19 shutdowns; recommendations for the preservation and management of historical house museums and sites; and the preservation of precarious records created by campus organizations. Read More
26 October 2023 – Joseph Plaster
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two parts of a conversation with Joseph Plaster, director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University, who won the 2023 Outstanding Public History Project Award-Small Institution for the Peabody Ballroom Experience. Read More
24 October 2023 – Joseph Plaster
Editors’ Note: Joseph Plaster, director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University, won the 2023 Outstanding Public History Project Award-Small Institution for the Peabody Ballroom Experience. As Plaster explains, “The Peabody Ballroom Experience is a public humanities collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and ballroom, a nearly century-old performance-based network and culture composed primarily of gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color.” Read More
06 December 2022 – Marc Stein and Barry Loveland
In August, the Pennsylvania LGBT History Network completed its latest traveling exhibit, titled Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania College and Universities. The exhibit is currently scheduled for visits at nine locations around the state, including various colleges and universities and LGBT community centers. Read More
02 December 2022 – Marc Stein and Barry Loveland
In August, the Pennsylvania LGBT History Network completed its latest traveling exhibit, titled Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania College and Universities. The exhibit is currently scheduled for visits at nine locations around the state, including various colleges and universities and LGBT community centers. Read More
19 November 2020 – John R. Legg
Indigenous People, methods, American Indians, public engagement, decolonization, media, games, memory, sense of place, Q&A, politics, pioneers, LGBTQ history
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Michael Salgarolo and Kylie Holloway to discuss their Oregon Trail immersive game that brought history and leisure together as a way to experience the US West and challenge the colonial foundations of the famous video game. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
advocacy, community history, memory, sense of place, National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
11 July 2019 – Katherine Crawford-Lackey
government, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, LGBTQ history, digital media, TPH 41.2, advocacy, collaboration
Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
09 July 2019 – Melissa Barthelemy 1
art, LGBTQ history, methods, social justice, public engagement, TPH 41.2, media, speech, graduate students, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, gender
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More