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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
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
web archiving, 2018 annual meeting, The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, rapid response
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
14 March 2018 – Roger Christman
Editor’s note: This is the third 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.”
Eleven years ago, Seung Hui Cho killed thirty-two people and injured at least seventeen others before turning the gun on himself. Read More
07 March 2018 – Louise Shaw
disaster planning, condolence collecting, rapid response, The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH 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
01 March 2018 – James F. Brooks
Editor’s note: We publish TPH editor James F. Brooks’s introduction to the February 2018 issue of The Public Historian. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members.
Forty years ago, G. Wesley Johnson, a historian of colonial West Africa, penned the first of what would become scores of Editor’s Corners (at the time, “Editor’s Prefaces”) to launch the first issue of The Public Historian. Read More
05 February 2018 – Ashley Maynor 3
rapid response, community history, The Public Historian, TPH 40.1, TPH Rapid Response, disaster planning, condolence collecting
Editor’s note: This is the first 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.”
When the Virginia Tech tragedy took place in April 2007, I was an adjunct at Virginia Tech (VT) and the general manager of an art house movie theater that touted itself as the “heart of Blacksburg”—located just steps from the Drillfield, VT’s version of a quad. Read More