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16 April 2013 – Jill Dolan
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons. Read More
15 April 2013 – Jill Dolan 2
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons. Read More
11 April 2013 – Jill Dolan 1
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons. Read More
08 April 2013 – Jill Dolan 3
preservation, art, museums, conference, The Public Historian, review, conference city review, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Rideau Street Convent Chapel
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city. These “(p)reviews,” as we’re dubbing them, will inaugurate what we hope will be a growing partnership between The Public Historian and the Public History Commons. Read More
05 March 2013 – editors 2
A new issue of The Public Historian will be appearing in libraries and subscribers’ mailboxes soon. Below is an advance look at the Table of Contents:
The Public Historian
A Journal of Public History
Volume 35 February 2013 Number 4
Editor’s Corner
The Past Enhanced, Endowed, Engaged
Randolph Bergstrom
Roundtable
Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
William Bryans, Albert Camarillo, Swati Chattopadhyay, Jon Christensen, Sharon Leon, and Cathy Stanton
Public History and Public Humanities: State Humanities Councils
Public Works: NEH, Congress, and the State Humanities Councils
Jamil Zainaldin
Making the Humanities Public: The Example of Connecticut’s Humanities Council
Briann Greenfield
Digital History at Historic Sites
#VirtualTourist: Embracing Our Audience through Public History Web Experience
Anne Lindsay
Crossing Borders: Conversations on the War of 1812 Bicentennial Online and in Print
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The War Of 1812 In Canada And The United States In 2012
Karim M. Read More
14 February 2013 – editors
NEWS
New Editors Join The Public Historian. The editorial team of The Public Historian (TPH) will grow this spring to include a co-editor and two international consulting editors. NCPH and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have signed an agreement with Rutgers University-Camden, which is creating a new staff position for a Public Historian in Residence whose primary responsibility will be to serve as TPH co-editor. Read More
15 November 2012 – editors 1
This is the sixth and final in a series of posts about the findings of our summer 2012 survey on the current state and possible future directions of The Public Historian journal and other NCPH media.
from Anne Mitchell Whisnant, NCPH Journal Task Force:
As a member of the NCPH task force considering the future of The Public Historian, I, like several of my colleagues, have been mining the data from last summer’s survey about the journal. Read More
05 November 2012 – Cathy Stanton
This is the fifth in a series of posts about the findings of our summer 2012 survey on the current state and possible future directions of The Public Historian journal and other NCPH media.
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from Cathy Stanton, NCPH Digital Media Group:
I looked at the question “In what ways would you like to see the possibilities of digital history and digital publishing transform the NCPH journal?” Read More
28 October 2012 – editors 2
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the findings of our summer 2012 survey on the current state and possible future directions of The Public Historian journal and other NCPH media.
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from Linda Shopes, member, NCPH journal advisory group:
As a member of NCPH’s task force considering the future of The Public Historian and its relationship to other NCPH media, I reviewed responses to question #4 of the Council’s recent Public History Readers Survey: What do you think are the weaknesses of The Public Historian? Read More
22 October 2012 – editors 1
This is the third in a series of posts about the findings of our summer 2012 survey on the current state and possible future directions of The Public Historian journal and other NCPH media.
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from Rob Townsend, Deputy Director, American Historical Association:
The Public History Readers Survey demonstrates the wide array of information sources that now dot the landscape of our professional lives, and the challenges that the National Council on Public History faces as it considers the future of its publishing program. Read More