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14 May 2020 – James F. Brooks
Editor's Corner, race, The Public Historian, TPH 42.2, music, commemoration, Immigration, public history, heritage tourism
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2020 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online free through June 2020, courtesy of the University of California Press, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
05 February 2020 – Nicole Belolan
Entering the Flight 93 National Memorial galleries in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a few years ago, my mind was on my achy muscles. My husband and I had just completed an intensive, multiday cooperage workshop at the Somerset Historical Society nearby. We don’t visit western Pennsylvania that often, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to check out the Memorial despite being pretty exhausted. Read More
10 December 2019 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2019 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
14 August 2019 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish The Public Historian editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the August 2019 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
23 July 2019 – Krista McCracken, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, and Nicole Belolan
As part of American Archives Month, History@Work will be running an October series dedicated to the publicly-engaged work done by archivists in the U.S. and abroad. Do you want to share your thoughts and experiences with us about archives and public history? Read More
11 July 2019 – Katherine Crawford-Lackey
LGBTQ history, digital media, TPH 41.2, advocacy, collaboration, government, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality
Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
09 July 2019 – Melissa Barthelemy 1
public engagement, TPH 41.2, media, speech, graduate students, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, gender, art, LGBTQ history, methods, social justice
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
27 June 2019 – Yvonne Clayton, Melissa Keeling, Kathleen Melgar, Jennifer Souder, and Charles Trott
TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, race, The Public Historian, music, commemoration
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
Entertainment and music are a big piece of Asbury Park’s history. Read More
11 June 2019 – Katie Singer 1
TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements “The Public Historian,” volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums.
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, invites us into the story of a once-enslaved woman. Read More
04 June 2019 – Sarah Biehl and Kimberly D. Boice 4
historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian, slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a History@Work series that complements The Public Historian, volume 40, number 3, which is about the history of the field of Black Museums. Shawn Halifax writes in “McLeod Plantation Historic Site: Sowing Truth and Change,” that “many if not most historic plantations acknowledge or interpret African diasporic histories and cultures that existed within these landscapes to varying degrees.” Read More