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oral history

Editor’s Corner: Time, Space and Place

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Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.

The three articles in this issue all grapple with interpreting a particular place over multiple time periods, often in conversation with each other, and the insights that doing so can provide historians and the public. Read More

Oral histories battling climate change

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Editor’s note: Today we continue the “Our Climate Emergency” series with a post by Melody Hunter-Pillion that centers oral history methods as a way to battle climate change. 

“It’s different and it’s more severe . . . I’m not the scientists, but I can definitely tell you, it’s happening.”

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Remote collaborations: remaining connected while collecting and preserving history

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Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history in the age of COVID-19 that will be published throughout October, Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More

Documenting the Undocumented: Archiving and recording the refugee experience

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Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More

Science and disability Q&A: Part 2

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Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series based on a conversation between our Digital Media Editor, Nicole Belolan, and Jessica Martucci, a researcher at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

NB: How do you think this project defines or redefines disability, and who does the defining? Read More