A vexing issue

15 August 2017 – James F. Brooks

Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the August 2017 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.

At first glance, a collection of essays that range from Jesuit Mission historic sites to faux Indian statuary to Liberty ships and war museums seem impossible to arrange in a conceptual matrix—at once evidence of the great range of public history engagements and, simultaneously, a scattershot deployment of their substance. Read More

Struggle, strife, and realization

23 May 2017 – James F. Brooks

Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the May 2017 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.

I write on March 8, 2017, International Women’s Day, unexpectedly fitting for the contents of this May issue of The Public Historian. Read More

In praise of multistory places

13 April 2017 – Donna Graves

Editor’s Note: This is the last of a series of posts reflecting on G. Samantha Rosenthal’s article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” published in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, and on how the Roanoke project relates to other LGBTQ public history projects. Read More

Making public history more queer

29 March 2017 – Connie Mandeville

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a series of posts reflecting on Gregory Samantha Rosenthal’s article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” published in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, and on how the Roanoke project relates to other LGBTQ public history projects. Read More

Call for papers: The Public Historian seeks articles on LGBTQ public history

09 March 2017 – Tammy Gaskell

In light of the LGTBQ theme study recently released by the National Park Service, The Public Historian invites proposals for articles to be published in a special issue of the journal on LGTBQ public history to coincide with the 50^th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Read More

Wanted: your favorite articles for the classroom

07 March 2017 – Tammy Gaskell

Public history as a discipline and as a practice is inherently collaborative. It requires that we share knowledge as well as authority. And the editors of The Public Historian would like you to share your knowledge with us and the larger community of public historians. Read More

Make queerness relevant again

01 March 2017 – David C. White

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of posts reflecting on Gregory Rosenthal’s article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” published in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, and on how the Roanoke project relates to other LGBTQ public history projects. Read More

Going public

07 February 2017 – James F. Brooks

Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.

I write surrounded by residues. One month ago, a national election laid waste my faith in the sense and sensibility of many of my fellow citizens. Read More

Reclaiming queer historical space

02 February 2017 – G. Samantha Rosenthal 1

Editor’s Note: In their article, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” which appears in the February 2017 issue of The Public Historian, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal expands upon this preview to explore the intersections among urban history, queer history, and public history. Read More

Stronger than steel: class and commemoration in postindustrial Nova Scotia

31 January 2017 – Lachlan MacKinnon

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of posts on deindustrialization and industrial heritage commissioned by The Public Historian, expanding the conversation begun with the November 2017 special issue on the topic.

In the late nineteenth century, Cape Breton, the island on Canada’s east coast at the northern tip of the province of Nova Scotia, was rich in coal and ripe for resource extraction. Read More