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04 February 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 6
On a recent conference call that connected public history practitioners from Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy, Spain, South Africa, and the U.S., one participant remarked on the utility of replicating historic site and museum programs from different geographic locations in others. Another extolled the benefits of sharing ideas, methods, and experiences across the different regions of the world. Read More
23 January 2013 – Jason Steinhauer 2
“History” was on everyone’s lips on Inauguration Day.
Historical rituals marked the ceremony. Historical allusions to the Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King, Jr., punctuated Obama’s remarks. The media defined the setting as “historic.” A historic Bible was sworn on. Read More
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
04 January 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 1
human rights, profession, graduate students, advocacy, public engagement, community history, memory, museums, scholarship
Continued from Part I.
I recently watched a documentary on, of all things, happiness. The film, “Happy,” focused on the study of happiness (positive psychology) and what makes people happy and when, along with the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contribute or detract from happiness. Read More
31 December 2012 – Will Walker
Doing public programs is never easy, but it is the most immediate and rewarding way to engage directly with your audience. This past semester, the Cooperstown Graduate Program’s oral history project experimented with a new type of public program. Taking our cue from the statewide “Community Conversations” sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, which also provided funding for our project, we decided to use our large archive of oral histories as the basis for a series of dialogues about important environmental topics. Read More
28 December 2012 – Liz Almlie 1
There’s a show on the website Hulu you may have seen, called “Up to Speed” with host Timothy “Speed” Levitch and director Richard Linklater. Speed is a licensed tour guide—kind of—advising us that “to truly travel is to appreciate the beauty in the unexpected.” Read More
24 December 2012 – Joseph Cialdella
preservation, public engagement, community history, sense of place, museums, scholarship, profession
To address the issue of how to make historic designation and documentation a part of Cliveden’s ongoing dialogue with its various publics, the site sponsored a forum themed around the question “Do National Historic Landmarks Represent Our Historic Values?” This event was an opportunity to bring together community members, museum professionals, and preservationists from the Germantown area to discuss the NHL process, our research for the nomination, and moreover the changing meaning of Cliveden’s history today, all while enlivening what can otherwise seem on the surface to be a closed and static process of filling out a bureaucratic form. Read More
21 December 2012 – Nicole King 1
During the fall 2012 semester, I taught the third iteration of my undergraduate research seminar “Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore” for the Department of American Studies at UMBC. The class is designed to expose students to historical documentation skills as well as business practices that can be used in the non-profit world. Read More
18 December 2012 – Joseph Cialdella 3
preservation, public engagement, community history, sense of place, museums, scholarship, profession
Through the support of the Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan, I recently found myself, along with my team of colleagues, navigating unfamiliar territory in the form of partnership with Cliveden of the National Trust to update the site’s National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination. Read More
14 December 2012 – Morgen Young 1
In Part 1 of this post, participants in a Northwest History Network professional development program called Who Hires Consulting Historians? talked about some of the “soft skills” that employers look for. Part 2 is an additional excerpt from the discussion. You can hear a podcast of the entire program here. Read More