NCPH News, May 1, 2013 – Speed brake on the omnipresence of the past

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NEWS

• “A Speed-Brake on the Omnipresence of the Past.”  The New York Times’s Bill Keller on “Erasing History.”
• NEH Chairman Jim Leach to Resign. The ninth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be leaving effective the first week of May.

NCPH News and conference updates April 25, 2013 – Conference recap

25 April 2013 – editors

NEWS

• What the Public Thinks About Museums.  A recent survey by the Museums Association in Great Britain. “What the public sees as essential purposes – care, preservation and display of heritage; entertaining education for all children; and trustworthy information for all adults – explain why museums are held in such high regard.”

Lightning Talks and Digital Drop-In today

19 April 2013 – editors

Join us for two digital-public-history events today at the NCPH conference:

Lightning Talks (12:30-1:30 p.m.) – An informal brown-bag lunch session in the Frontenac Room where you can showcase your own digital project and hear what’s new and exciting in the digital humanities. Read More

3D printers and tweeting lobsters: NCPH 2013 is underway

18 April 2013 – Cathy Stanton

The public history twitterverse is an ever-livelier place, to the point that the relative absence of public historians (as at this year’s Organization of American Historians conference, held jointly with the National Council on Public History last spring but separately this year) correlates to a sharp decline in social media traffic, as David Austin Walsh reported last week. Read More

2013 G. Wesley Johnson Award: How public history matters for undergraduates

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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 by Elizabeth Belanger, author of “Public History and Liberal Learning: Making the Case for the Undergraduate Practicum Experience,” which won the 2013 G. Read More

NCPH News and conference updates April 10, 2013 – New feature of the public history journal of record

10 April 2013 – editors

NEWS

• New Online Feature of the Public History Journal of Record.  These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons.
• New Opposition to Old Sports Mascots. 

NCPH 2013 Student Project Award: Learning from community

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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 by Ellen Kuhn, Shawna Prather, and Ashley Wyatt, students at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and co-creators of the exhibit “Past the Pipes: Stories of the Terra Cotta Community,” which won the 2013 Student Project Award. Read More

NCPH 2013 Group Consulting Award (Part 2): Synergies and cross-purposes

04 April 2013 – Anne Mitchell Whisnant 1

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

NCPH news and conference updates April 2, 2013 – Last day for pre-registration

03 April 2013 – editors

NEWS

• Digital Public Library of America to Open April 18th. Public historians will benefit from a national digital library knitting together the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums—online and free of charge.
• The Sequester Hits History. When we think about the budget mess in Washington, it’s easy to focus on how it affects what’s now and what’s next….

NCPH 2013 Group Consulting Award (Part 1): What next for Imperiled Promise?

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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 part of 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