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Bringing History Indoors during a Pandemic
Editor’s note: How have local communities interacted with historians during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic? This post introduces the History Indoors project by two graduate students at the...
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Creative nonfiction as public history: a Q&A with author Miles Harvey
Cover of The King of Confidence, published by Little, Brown, and Company in 2020. Editor’s Note: Miles Harvey is author of The King of Confidence, A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True...
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Book clubs as public history
The Cortland Free Library designs a monthly flyer for the History Buffs’ Book Club. Image credit: Cortland Free Library. On the evening of November 12, 2020, during a live Zoom call with seven other...
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Our Side of the Tracks: Community Curation of Black History in Acworth,...
The second of two installments in a series exploring the development of the “Our Side of the Tracks” exhibit at Doyal Hill Park in Acworth, Georgia. Part One described the origins of the project,...
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Editor’s Corner: Community and Commemoration
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to...
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Raising New Questions: Reframing the Semiquincentennial with Resources for...
Planning for the 250th anniversary (or Semiquincentennial) of the American Revolution, coming up in 2026, has already started for many historians and history institutions. The U.S. Semiquincentennial...
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Shared Work: William & Mary’s Highland and The Lemon Project
William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and...
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Practicing public history on Wikipedia
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Madeline Hellmich is the winner of a graduate student travel award. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia,...
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Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore
Kin/Folk/Lore (KFL) is a community-led history project that uses grassroots storytelling to incite meaningful dialogues across cultures, generations, and localities in Philadelphia....
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Finding their voices: the Williamsburg Bray School scholars’ legacy
Editor’s Note: This article is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of Colonial Williamsburg. In February 2023, I began working at the Colonial Williamsburg...
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