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05 February 2014 – Cody Ferguson
preservation, public engagement, sense of place, environment, sustainability, profession, conference
How are public history and environmental history connected?
As this year’s liaison between the National Council on Public History’s Annual Meeting in Monterey and the annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History in San Francisco, I am tasked with this question. Read More
03 February 2014 – Steven Burg 4
Off the east coast of Southern Sweden, a battle is raging between competing visions of sustainability. On the most unlikely of battlegrounds, bucolic Öland island, a desire to promote renewable energy has brought local officials committed to promoting a sustainable society into conflict with island residents, preservationists, farmers, environmentalists, and local business owners who believe that protecting the island’s character and cultural resources is incompatible with a proposal to expand industrially generated wind power on the island. Read More
17 January 2014 – Cassie Ward 2
Every day I am asked, “You’re a public historian–what the heck is that and what do you do all day?” I smile from ear to ear, climb on top of my soapbox, and begin to talk about how fortunate I feel to have turned my love of history into a challenging and fulfilling career. Read More
31 October 2013 – Mary Rizzo 1
preservation, sense of place, scholarship, profession, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, NCPH Board Member Posts
A few weeks ago, I asked readers of History@Work to nominate articles on historic preservation and place from The Public Historian for a yearlong conversation in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 2016. Read More
11 October 2013 – Kate Preissler
03 October 2013 – Mary Rizzo 7
preservation, sense of place, scholarship, profession, The Public Historian, National Historic Preservation Act, NCPH Board Member Posts
In the nomination form for the US National Register of Historic Places, one of the main criteria excludes “structures, sites and objects achieving historical importance within the past 50 years.” Using this criterion, if the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which authorized the National Register, were a building, it would only become eligible for inclusion in 2016. Read More
23 September 2013 – Joan Zenzen 4
I spent two weeks in July immersing myself in the life and feel of northern Minnesota, all in service of an administrative history I am writing of Voyageurs National Park. I consider such experiential learning as another primary source that I can call upon when writing. 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
31 May 2013 – Gabriel Loiacono 1
I am a historian from Wisconsin, spending a semester teaching in Pécs (pronounced paych), Hungary as part of the Fulbright program. Hungarians publicly remember the past in so many places and in so many different ways that I frequently feel a kind of happy, historical sensory overload. Read More
29 May 2013 – Annie Muirhead
methods, public engagement, sense of place, conference, The Public Historian, NCPH conference 2013, conference city review
Editor’s note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published byThe Public Historian in the Public History Commons
Horaceville: Pinhey’s Point Historic Site, April 20, 2013. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario. The Pinhey’s Point Foundation. Tour leader: Bruce Elliott. Read More