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18 April 2018 – Miriam Melton-Vilanueva. 1
public engagement, memory, museums, conference, material culture, 2018 annual meeting, Las Vegas Series 2018
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of pieces focused on Las Vegas and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Las Vegas in April.
As discussed in yesterday’s post, the Las Vegas shooting happened a month before Day of the Dead. Read More
05 April 2018 – Kate Johnson and Marie Pellissier
Our working group, “Crossing the Line: Facilitating Digital Access to Primary Sources,” started with a simple premise. If, as Sheila Brennan states, digital humanities projects are not “public” projects merely by virtue of their being accessible online, how then can we craft them so as to place public engagement at the center? Read More
20 December 2017 – Carrie Knight 2
Since 2012, the Seward Family Digital Archive Project, under the aegis of the University of Rochester’s Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department, has endeavored to digitize portions of one of its most utilized collections—the papers of former U.S. Secretary of State and New York governor William H. Read More
08 December 2017 – Jean-Pierre Morin
Over the course of the last year, NCPH has been undertaking a bit of soul searching. As a growing organization seeking to remain relevant to its membership while continuing to promote the field of public history, NCPH needs to be guided with a clear understanding of the needs of members and chart out a way forward. Read More
27 November 2017 – David Rotenstein 1
This is an exciting and anxiety-producing moment in the United States. It is a time when professional historians are stepping outside their classrooms and consulting practices to push for the removal of Confederate statues and for greater public dialogue about the roles that white supremacy played in the past and how it persists in our communities. Read More
17 November 2017 – Joana Arruda
advocacy, public engagement, environment, sustainability, government, international, politics, NCPH, National Park Service
On May 13, 1918, less than two years after the National Park Service (NPS) was established, U.S. Interior Secretary Franklin K. Lane wrote to first National Park Service (NPS) director Stephen T. Mather regarding ways in which the new federal agency could interpret and expand its mission. Read More
19 October 2017 – Jerome de Groot and Tanya Evans
methods, public engagement, community history, memory, collaboration, international, genealogy, family history
The study and practice of family history is fraught with methodological, historiographical, practical, ethical, and cultural concerns for scholars and practitioners alike.[1] In trying to design an event that might respond to and interrogate these concerns, we asked: What new knowledge might be created if we bring scholars together to discuss the phenomenal growth of family history in different nations? Read More
18 September 2017 – Daniel Fisher
In recent years, humanities practitioners at institutions of higher education have become increasingly engaged in public life. The National Humanities Alliance Foundation is currently leading a national study called “Humanities for All” to investigate and document this important work. Read More
24 August 2017 – Dina A. Bailey
A teachable moment at the 2017 AAM Conference
In walking through the expo hall at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference in May, a friend of mine and I came upon one of the vendor displays that showed the figure of an enslaved black man shackled to a pole and a grey (white) auctioneer figure standing as if to accept bids. Read More
11 August 2017 – Paul Ringel 1
Consider a public history project on a Jim Crow era black high school in North Carolina, staffed by a white professor and three dozen predominantly white students. Add a growing level of distrust between the private, rapidly expanding university from which the project emerged, and the poor, largely non-white, surrounding community that was the home neighborhood for this high school. Read More