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16 December 2013 – Mary Rizzo
The turn to spatial history has been aided by the explosion of digital mapping tools. While there are many options for mapping out there (including HistoryPin as described by Aaron Cowan in a History@Work post earlier this year), one look at the projects being completed by leaders in the field like the Stanford Visualization Lab is both inspiring and terrifying. Read More
06 November 2013 – Jill Titus 1
In July 1963, tens of thousands of visitors flocked to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle widely touted as the turning point of the American Civil War. Despite the profusion of toy souvenirs and 19th-century garb, the fact that this anniversary coincided with heightened street confrontation over civil rights, increased international condemnation of racial injustices in the US, and shifts in Cold War politics did not go unnoticed. Read More
31 October 2013 – Mary Rizzo 1
preservation, sense of place, scholarship, profession, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, NCPH Board Member Posts
A few weeks ago, I asked readers of History@Work to nominate articles on historic preservation and place from The Public Historian for a yearlong conversation in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 2016. Read More
03 October 2013 – Mary Rizzo 7
preservation, sense of place, scholarship, profession, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, NCPH Board Member Posts
In the nomination form for the US National Register of Historic Places, one of the main criteria excludes “structures, sites and objects achieving historical importance within the past 50 years.” Using this criterion, if the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which authorized the National Register, were a building, it would only become eligible for inclusion in 2016. Read More
26 June 2013 – Morgen Young 3
As a full-time consulting historian, it is difficult to carve out time for my own research interests. Michael Adamson has discussed this challenge in this space.
In graduate school, I studied Farm Security Administration documentary photography. Upon starting my business, I found little time to continue my research–until a year ago. Read More
17 June 2013 – Liz Ševčenko 13
“I sat there in my chair listening to the comment, ‘I don’t know much about Guantánamo,’ follow nearly each of my peers’ introductions, myself included,”
Marnie Macgregor, University of Minnesota
Marnie was joining over 100 other students from around the country in a national experiment in public history and public dialogue. Read More
27 May 2013 – Denise Meringolo 3
Editor’s note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons
Ottawa Labor History Walking Tour, April 17, 2013. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Creators: Workers History Museum in partnership with Graduate Students from Carleton University. Read More
04 April 2013 – Anne Mitchell Whisnant 1
advocacy, scholarship, government, profession, politics, NCPH, Imperiled Promise, NCPH 2013 Awards, NCPH Board Member Posts
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is the second in a two-part series by Marla Miller and Anne Whisnant, two of the four authors of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the group category. Read More
06 March 2013 – Denise Meringolo
Read MoreEditors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Denise Meringolo, whose book Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History is the winner of the 2013 NCPH Book Award.
16 January 2013 – Mary Rizzo 13
The New York Times blog recently posted a piece about the recent AHA conference in New Orleans. Touching briefly on panels about horses and trash in history, the author pauses momentarily to describe a discussion about “The Public Practice of History in a Digital Age.” Read More