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Project Showcase: The Lost Stories Project
The Lost Stories Project seeks out little-known stories about the Canadian past, transforms them into inexpensive works of public art installed on appropriate sites, and documents the process by way of...
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Engaging to preserve: Building a preservation-minded community through Twitter
Phenix Building, Providence, RI. Photo credit: Caroline Nye Stevens Over the course of ten weeks this past spring, I explored, blogged, and tweeted my way through twenty of Providence’s endangered...
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New Directions in Active History and the consulting historian
Image courtesy of http://activehistory.ca In early October, a group of active historians met in London, Ontario, to discuss the future of their project. Active history seeks to strengthen the...
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I, Too, Sing America: Integrating the voices of all Americans in historic...
Editor’s note: This post concludes a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a part article published in The Public Historian, describing its...
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A public history role for building bike lanes in cities?
L Street NW cycle track, Washington, DC. Photo credit: David Rotenstein Gentrification: It’s not just for sociologists and anthropologists any more. Though historians have been making inroads...
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Public history on Broadway (Part 1)
Video credit: Allegiance website Editor’s note: Many of the issues discussed in this two-part post will be further examined in upcoming responses on this blog to “Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure...
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Public history on Broadway (Part 2)
My recent review of the Georgia Social Studies Standards, as part of my work at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, galvanized my desire to reflect on the importance of the Broadway musical,...
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Access for all
Photo credit: Jeremy Keith, on Flickr. CC BY 2.0 license Andrew Hurley’s article, “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology,” begins with the launch of the Virtual City Project in 1999 and brings...
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Creative aging, inclusive aging: How public historians can reach seniors in...
Participants in an Arts Fusion tour discuss a work from the Taubman Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Photo credit: Taubman Museum of Art My grandmother was well into her seventies by the time I...
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NCPH New Professional Travel Award: Reflections from William Stoutamire
Frank House on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Photo credit: University of Nebraska at Kearney How can historic house museums remain relevant and engaging in the 21st century? That...
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Audience analysis and the role of the digital in community engagement
Map from the Bernal Heights Year of the Bay project on Historypin. Photo credit: Historypin As a public historian working on the collaborative digital platform Historypin, I second Andrew Hurley’s...
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Meeting our audiences where they are in the digital age
Image from the 98 Acres in Albany digital project. By 1960, about 15 percent of the South Mall take area’s 7,000 residents were African American. James C. Strawn was a janitor, musician, and...
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Finding the intersection of technology and public history
Photo credit: The Tire Zoo Digital technology has enabled public historians, cultural heritage professionals, and history students to collaborate with diverse audiences and explore history’s role in...
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Digital community engagement across the divides
Image credit: A Conversation, Khalid Albaih In 2008, the Journal of American History published a conversation among several historians regarding the future of digital history. William G. Thomas III...
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Project Showcase: Beyond Footnotes
Beyond Footnotes logo. Screenshot credit: Department of History, Portland State College Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History. The...
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Building an interdisciplinary discipline
Amanda Lyons of Visuals for Change was the visual note-taker at the March 2016 history communicators summit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Image credit: Amanda Lyons When I put the words...
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Project Showcase: Black Quotidian
Screenshot credit: Matthew Delmont When 2016 began, I had never heard of Juanita Blocker, Blanche Thompson, or Helen Short. That changed once I started working on “Black Quotidian: Everyday History in...
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Out of the academy and into public service: Changing expectations and new...
Emily McEwen as resource specialist, April 2015. Photo credit: Emily McEwen In June 2014, when I finished my PhD in history, with a research emphasis in public history, I thought I was pretty hot...
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Project Showcase: History Hub
Screenshot credit: History Hub The Internet has changed the way nearly every profession shares knowledge and communicates with the public. In the last few years archivists and historians working for...
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Challenging the exclusive past / Challenging my inclusive past
Baltimore Inner Harbor. Photo credit: Priya Chhaya My daily job at the National Trust for Historic Preservation doesn’t involve day-to-day interaction with the broader public. Rather I am a...
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