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24 June 2013 – David Rotenstein 1
Back in February I wrote about some of the challenges of donating old interviews done during graduate school in the 1990s for newspapers to the Atlanta History Center’s archives as oral histories. After some interesting attempts to get release forms signed more than 20 years after the interviews were done and more than a few collisions with data rot, the donation was completed in June. Read More
14 June 2013 – Robert Weyeneth 1
The first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places turned 90 this month. He is well-known professionally and personally among those who worked on behalf of historic preservation in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. William J. Murtagh is equally well-known to today’s generation of preservation teachers and students. Read More
07 June 2013 – Leah Glaser 5
Public historians have long engaged with environmental topics and environmental historians to explore the long-term material effects of the decisions, actions, and conceptions of people in the past. As we move toward the 2014 NCPH conference, with its theme of “Sustainable Public History,” this is a good moment to take stock of some of those disciplinary conversations and to think about how to move them forward in a time of accelerating environmental challenges and crises. Read More
03 June 2013 – Marty Wilson 1
preservation, conference, The Public Historian, NCPH conference 2013, conference city review, Parks Canada
Editor’s note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons
Rideau Canal Tour, April 20, 2013,. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Creators: Parks Canada. Tour leaders: JUAN SANCHEZ and BILL WYLIE. Read More
01 May 2013 – Stephen Lewis 3
As a trade union leader and a political activist, I had occasions to attend national and international events. Often, other attendees would bring posters from their respective organizations. I would usually take one of each because I was attracted to either the graphics or the issue or both. Read More
10 April 2013 – editors 3
preservation, projects, public engagement, community history, memory, sense of place, museums, scholarship, education, NCPH, graduate students, NCPH 2013 Awards
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
08 April 2013 – Jill Dolan 3
preservation, art, museums, conference, The Public Historian, review, conference city review, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Rideau Street Convent Chapel
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. 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. Read More
01 March 2013 – Eleanor Mahoney 3
Quick – name three National Park Service (NPS) units that commemorate, mark or otherwise emphasize the history of industrial work, or the labor movement in the United States.
Okay – Lowell National Historical Park might come to mind. Anywhere else?
Think. Read More
25 February 2013 – Noah Goodling 3
In August, 2012, an extraordinary thing happened: a small museum, dubbed the Friends of Science East (FSE, now the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe), which was being run out of two unused classrooms in a local high school on Long Island, began an online fundraising campaign which raised over $1 million in just over a week. Read More
22 January 2013 – editors 7
Located in Proctor, Vermont, The Vermont Marble Museum tells the story of the Vermont Marble Company — once the largest marble company in the world. Prominent buildings and monuments all over the United States and the world were made by the Vermont Marble Company including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the US Supreme Court Building and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Read More