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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
digital media, TPH 41.2, advocacy, collaboration, government, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, LGBTQ history
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
The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, gender, art, LGBTQ history, methods, social justice, public engagement, TPH 41.2, media, speech, graduate students
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
African American history, Black museums series, race, The Public Historian, music, commemoration, TPH 40.3
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
The Public Historian, slavery, commemoration, TPH 40.3, African American history, Black museums series
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
slavery, historic house museums, TPH 40.3, African American history, agricultural history, historic sites, Black museums series, The Public Historian
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
28 May 2019 – Deborah Strahorn, Marcy Breffle and Adina Langer
methods, public engagement, TPH 40.3, community history, memory, African American history, collaboration, Black museums series, museums, education, race, The Public Historian
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. This is part 2 of a two-part post written by educators at Atlanta’s APEX Museum: African American Panoramic Experience and Historic Oakland Cemetery, with questions posed by History@Work editor Adina Langer (AL) and answers given by Deborah Strahorn (DS) of APEX Museum and Marcy Breffle (MB) of Historic Oakland Cemetery. Read More
27 May 2019 – James F. Brooks
This special issue, guest-edited by historian Melinda Marie Jetté and timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, sparked a query among our editorial alumni and archives to identify just when The Public Historian first embraced the lives of LGBTQ people among our public history constituents. Read More