November 2, 2022
Topics of Interest for History@Work
The History@Work editors have compiled a list of topics of interests they’d like to see on the blog. If you’re doing work in these areas or have a related idea, submit a pitch to [email protected]! The full guidelines for submission are listed at https://ncph.org/history-at-work/guidelines/.
Topics of interest:
- defining public history through practice
- doing Public history [in an anti-democratic public sphere]
- intersections of public history and other types of community building related to religious life, foodways, planning and development, etc.
- community engagement and public history
- cross-departmental or cross-university public history projects in post-secondary settings
- teaching, pedagogy, and public history in post-secondary education settings and community settings
- new models for public history in higher education, especially in non-elite settings
- discussions about where non-historians seek out history
- intersection of design and historic preservation or redevelopment
- ethics in public history
- labor and volunteering in public history
- physical and emotional safety of public history workers
- sustainability and public history
- identity-based storytelling related to Black history, latino/a history, LGBTQ history, etc., not associated with yearly commemoration activities
- disability history, disability justice, and access and inclusion for disabled people in public history settings
- material culture in public history
- doing digital public history projects with community partners
- repatriation, return, and public history, especially in non-museum settings
- issues in digital history (such as data integrity and sustainability)
- responses to or pieces that complement The Public Historian content
- NCPH-related content (such as related to operations, Board committees, and other NCPH-sponsored activities)