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28 March 2012 – Michael Mizell-Nelson 1
profession, training, graduate students, new professionals, conference, projects, digital history, media
I am always happy to discover how often new media scholarship benefits traditional research as well as public history practice. My recent experience with one particular online project using Zotero demonstrates how new media innovation can invigorate our classroom instruction in unexpected ways. Read More
27 March 2012 – Melissa Mannon 2
The Internet gives consultants the opportunity to showcase our expertise for a broad audience while also allowing us to define our niche. We once relied on a web page to represent us online, but people are now turning to social media to find reliable “experts.” Read More
23 March 2012 – Denise Meringolo
Recently, I attended a local “unconference” designed to bring together preservationists, public historians, community activists and others. During the day, this sentence popped into my head: “People do not forget; they never knew.”
I first came across that pithy explanation of social amnesia in an essay by Barbara J. Read More
19 March 2012 – Priya Chhaya
We all have to start somewhere. Public historians arrive in the profession from a variety of different places. We are inspired to work in a field that invokes passion and a lot of heart–but at some point we have all taken our first steps into the profession, either as graduate students or as new professionals who came into our public history work from unexpected directions. Read More
14 March 2012 – John Dichtl
Welcome to History@Work, a blog to represent the wide range of voices within the public history field. Consultants and contractors, graduate students, curators, archivists, and federal, state, and local historians, professors, and new professionals in all sorts of institutions and settings are invited here to catch up on news, weigh in on developments in the field, and share expertise. Read More
14 March 2012 – Cathy Stanton
As I was working on getting ready for the beta phase of “History@Work,” I took on the task of freshening up the public history blogroll that we’ve used at “Off the Wall” for the past year and a half. This turned out to be a sobering exercise: it turns out that close to half the blogs we were following have shut down or become inactive (including, just recently, the venerable Cliopatria). Read More
14 March 2012 – Briann Greenfield 7
The Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (CCCPH) has followed the AHA’s announcement of the “Tuning” project to establish core competencies in history with great interest. We believe this project will provide faculty with the time and resources to reflect on the essential skills of history and applaud the AHA’s attention to education. Read More
14 March 2012 – Adina Langer 3
2012 is an ambitious year for NCPH, marking the launch of a true locus for our craft on the World Wide Web: the “History@Work” blog located on the new digital Public History Commons. Like the field of public history, this space will take advantage of every phase the Internet has to offer: its content delivery mechanisms will be multi-faceted, its content fluid, and its reach will encompass the entire cloud. Read More
14 January 2011 – editors 3
In this post, Vintage Roadside’s first for “Off the Wall,” we’d like to introduce ourselves by touching on our motivation for launching our preservation-themed business followed by a brief review of a symposium we presented this past summer on Aquarama, a wonderful 1960s mermaid attraction once found on Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri. Read More