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08 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Editors’ Note: This is the first of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect public history employment? Read More
07 January 2020 – Lady Marie Bulilan and Alaina Scapicchio
What’s the right thing to wear to the Manuscript Reading Room in the Library of Congress? That question might seem trivial to those who have done archival research before, but it was a fairly big one for us as two undergraduates setting off on our first journey as research assistants. Read More
23 October 2019 – Paul Ringel
Last summer, when offered a rare opportunity to receive funding for course development, I applied for a university grant to test the value of incorporating growth mindset theories into my public history course. At first glance, these two pedagogies did not seem particularly compatible, but I was curious to see if I could combine them to a positive effect. Read More
27 August 2019 – Tracy Huddleson 4
There’s a saying I’m fond of for its nudge to face life with boldness: “Leap, and the net will appear.” It’s an especially relevant credo for those thinking about graduate school and a second career at an older age.
Second-career concerns were not top of mind for me until recently. Read More
16 July 2019 – Katie Stringer Clary 1
After moving to a new state and leaving a position as Executive Director of Blount Mansion, a historic house museum, I joined the academic world as an adjunct teaching associate in the history department at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Read More
07 May 2019 – Tiya Miles 1
TPH 40.3, training, African American history, race, Higher Education, The Public Historian, libraries, gender, Black museums series, teaching, community engagement
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.
There are multiple paths to the collaborations we value as historical interpreters and practitioners. Read More
21 March 2019 – Barb Howe
Editors’ and author’s note: The Council of Past Presidents of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) began conducting oral histories with founders of NCPH in 2015. This blog post, the second of a two-part series, was inspired by interviews with Dr. Read More
14 March 2019 – Philip V. Scarpino 1
Editors’ and author’s note: The Council of Past Presidents of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) began conducting oral histories with founders of NCPH in 2015. This blog post, the second of a two-part series, was inspired by interviews with Dr. Read More
18 February 2019 – Rebecca Conard 1
Editors’ Note: This In Memoriam also appears in the current NCPH Newsletter and The Public Historian, Vol. 41, No. 1.
G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., founding editor of The Public Historian and a founding member of the National Council on Public History, died November 16, 2018. Read More
04 December 2018 – Jackie Swihart, Garrett Receveur, Sam Opsahl and Stasia Tanzer
When we were approached by NCPH to work with the Mellon-funded “OAH Amplified Initiative,” we were excited to put skills learned from our graduate classes into practice and further NCPH’s mission to build community and expand historians’ professional toolkit. Read More