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16 January 2019 – James F. Brooks
international, The Public Historian, public history, Editor's Corner, TPH 40.4, public history theory
Editor’s note: We publish “The Public Historian” editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the November 2018 issue of TPH here. This is adapted from the print edition. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
09 August 2018 – James F. Brooks
collaboration, museums, race, The Public Historian, TPH 40.3, National Museum of African American History and Culture, AAAM
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the August 2018 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.
On October 28, 2016, the editorial team of The Public Historian waited in a crisp windy dawn for the doors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to open. Read More
18 June 2018 – Kathryn E. Wilson
methods, public engagement, education, The Public Historian, teaching, TPH teaching series, facilitated discussion
Editor’s note: In this final post in our series on teaching with articles from The Public Historian, Kate Wilson discusses her experiences using Ruth Abram’s essay, “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in Action at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum” (The Public Historian 29, no. Read More
21 May 2018 – James F. Brooks 1
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2018 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.
This issue of The Public Historian unfolds as a meditation on one of the central paradoxes in our field. Read More
16 May 2018 – Ashley Maynor
Editor’s note: This is the final post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
In 2018, tragedy is visible, impossible to ignore, and happening all the time and all across the globe as History@Work’s series of posts and The Public Historian’s roundtable have so deftly illuminated. Read More
09 May 2018 – G. Samantha Rosenthal 2
methods, sense of place, collaboration, NCPH, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, oral history, NCPH 2018 Awards
Editor’s note: this is the first in a series of pieces by recipients of NCPH’s 2018 best in public history awards.
On the final morning of a five-day visit to Roanoke, Virginia, my New Yorker friend turned to me and said “Roanoke made me queer again.” Read More
02 May 2018 – Liza Dale-Hallett
Editor’s note: This is the fifth post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
The Black Saturday Bushfires are the worst natural disaster in Australia’s recorded history. Read More
17 April 2018 – Tammi Kim
The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, rapid response, web archiving, 2018 annual meeting
Editor’s note: This is the fourth post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
Tragedy struck Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017, when a gunman opened fire onto a crowd of twenty-two thousand people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, injuring over five hundred people and killing fifty-eight. Read More
12 April 2018 – James F. Brooks
digital history, memory, environment, conference, The Public Historian, 2018 annual meeting, Las Vegas Series 2018
I hope NCPH members and The Public Historian subscribers will enjoy our second foray into digital special editions tuned to the current moment in public history. Our Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics issue of last September responded to public debates around the removal of “Lost Cause” monuments then in the news. Read More
07 March 2018 – Louise Shaw
The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, disaster planning, condolence collecting, rapid response
Editor’s note: This is the second post of a series that continues the conversation begun in the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian with the roundtable “Responding Rapidly to Our Communities.”
As curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, I collect, present, and interpret the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s history. Read More