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02 November 2023 – Catherine Stiers
Shortly after ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, the debate started about whether or not it meant the end of public history as we know it. Is the public historian obsolete when computers can tell you anything you want to know about the past? Read More
11 November 2021 – Tiffany Momon, Torren Gatson and Victoria Hensley
Editors’ Note: This is the second of two Q&A posts about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive. The first post was published on November 9, 2021.
History@Work: What role can all public historians play in elevating stories of Black craft?
Torren Gatson: Public historians serve as the new vanguards of treasured and overshadowed histories. Read More
09 November 2021 – Tiffany Momon, Torren Gatson and Victoria Hensley
Editors’ Note: This is the first of two Q&A posts about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive.
History@Work: Tell us a little bit about the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive (BCDA). What inspired you? How and when did you get started? Read More
21 September 2021 – Rhondda Thomas 1
Higher Education, NCPH 2021 awards, archives, social media, African American history, campus history
Editor’s Note: Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University by Rhondda Robinson Thomas received an honorable mention for the 2021 NCPH award for best new book about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, for either 2020 or 2021. Read More
25 June 2020 – GVGK Tang 2
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. GVGK Tang was awarded the Historical Research Associates (HRA) New Professional Travel Award. Read More
26 December 2019 – Sydney Johnson
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final post in a series on the Chicory Revitalization Project. The first post featured the history of the project and the second post considered digitization of the magazine.
During its nearly twenty-year run, Chicory’s contributors detailed their lives, struggles, and dreams with candor—grasping at fragmented ancestral ties, growing up in the projects, and creating alternate futures for their city. Read More
05 December 2019 – Max Farley and Krista Pollett and Brian Whetstone
This summer, a team of National Council on Preservation Education (NCPE) interns oversaw the National Historic Landmarks Program’s social media accounts and explored firsthand how the creative chaos of shared social media management can be harnessed as a productive outlet for engagement and interpretation. Read More
13 December 2018 – Krista McCracken and Christine Crosby
NCPH held its first-ever Twitter Mini-Con(ference) on Thursday-Friday, October 18-19, 2018. The event was organized by historians Jessica Knapp and Krista McCracken, in collaboration with NCPH staff Christine Crosby and Meghan Hillman, and was modeled after the Beyond 150 Twitter Conference, which Krista organized with Andrea Eidinger (see this post for more details).
13 April 2016 – Deborah Boyer 1
methods, public engagement, digital history, social media, The Public Historian, TPH 38.1, "Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses, digital media
Digital technology has enabled public historians, cultural heritage professionals, and history students to collaborate with diverse audiences and explore history’s role in civic engagement in ways previously unimagined. The partnership between the Virtual City Project and the Restoration Group described by Andrew Hurley in “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology: Public History Meets the Digital Divide” demonstrates the exciting possibilities as well as challenges advanced digital tools provide, especially in the face of limited budgets, long software development cycles, and varying levels of digital access. Read More
29 October 2015 – Caroline Nye Stevens
Over the course of ten weeks this past spring, I explored, blogged, and tweeted my way through twenty of Providence’s endangered properties. The challenge came to me by way of the Providence Preservation Society (PPS), which is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their Most Endangered Properties (MEP) program this year. Read More