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The American Civilization Institute: A case study in radical public history...
Gene Weltfish, founder of the ACIM. Typically, the origins of public history education have been traced either to early twentieth-century applied history programs or to the first named public history...
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Listening to witnesses: The evolving history of Hobcaw Barony
Minnie Kennedy’s sister Nettie and her groom, Rainey Gardner, on their way to be married at Friendfield Church on Hobcaw Barony sometime in the 1920s. Photographer unknown. Photo credit: Belle W....
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A visitor’s observations on the National Museum of African American History...
National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo credit: Fuzheado, Wikimedia Commons. The first time I tried to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture, my...
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A visitor’s observations on the National Museum of African American History...
As I made my way through the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s five floors of exhibitions, it was the museum’s effective use of objects to convey both individual and collective...
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Can Facebook help public historians build community?
William Penn High School homecoming queen Ruby Jenkins riding in a convertible automobile driven by Leon Sharpe, Jr. Seated in the back seat on either side of Jenkins are Bernice Wall (left) and Doris...
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Teachable moments: Lessons to take to heart
A teachable moment at the 2017 AAM Conference Early Tweet about controversial figures at the AAM 2017 conference. Screenshot used with permission of @Their_Child In walking through the expo hall at the...
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Project Showcase: Humanities for All
In recent years, humanities practitioners at institutions of higher education have become increasingly engaged in public life. The National Humanities Alliance Foundation is currently leading a...
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International Family History Workshop, Part I
Alison Light speaks with attendees of the International Family History Workshop. Photo credit: Tanya Evans The study and practice of family history is fraught with methodological, historiographical,...
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Reimagining the history of the (Inter)National Park Service
National Park Service logo. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons On May 13, 1918, less than two years after the National Park Service (NPS) was established, U.S. Interior Secretary Franklin K. Lane wrote to...
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My community’s history is racist. How can I correct it?
Silver Spring “Memory Wall” mural depicting the B&O Railroad station, c. 1940s. Photo credit: David Rotenstein. This is an exciting and anxiety-producing moment in the United States. It is a time...
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Charting out our future: NCPH Long Range Plan
NCPH Long Range Plan on the Web. Courtesy National Council on Public History Over the course of the last year, NCPH has been undertaking a bit of soul searching. As a growing organization seeking to...
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Project Showcase: Seward Family Digital Archive Community Project Achievement
Seward Family Digital Archive staff and volunteers at the Seward House, Auburn, NY, Fall 2017. Photo credit: Carrie Knight. Since 2012, the Seward Family Digital Archive Project, under the aegis of...
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Crossing the line: Facilitating digital access to primary sources
ExploreCommonSense.com, a digital critical edition of Thomas Paine’s historic pamphlet and one of the digital projects represented in the working group. Image credit: Explore Common Sense. Our working...
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Pop-up Ofrenda: Interactive Remembrance and Healing
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of pieces focused on Las Vegas and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Las Vegas in April. UNLV Ofrenda...
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Exploring approaches to civic engagement through “Kitchen Conversations”
Editor’s note: In this final post in our series on teaching with articles from The Public Historian, Kate Wilson discusses her experiences using Ruth Abram’s essay, “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in...
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History is getting off with light duty
On January 20, 2018 several thousand people gathered on the capitol grounds in Des Moines, Iowa, for the”If You Can’t Hear Our Voice, Hear Our Vote,” the second Women’s March. Photo credit: Phil Roeder...
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War Stories, History Harvests, and how we learned to adapt on the fly
Image credit: Angelo State University War Stories is an NEH grant-funded project that preserves the experiences of West Texas U.S. military veterans and their family members by digitizing documents and...
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Subscribing to new mediums
Screen shot: Know History Available to anyone with access to the internet and a pair of headphones, podcasts are arguably the most accessible medium in today’s public history landscape. They also have...
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Breaking down NCPH’s First Twitter Mini-Con
NCPH held its first-ever Twitter Mini-Con(ference) on Thursday-Friday, October 18-19, 2018. The event was organized by historians Jessica Knapp and Krista McCracken, in collaboration with NCPH staff...
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The making of James Madison’s Montpelier’s “The Mere Distinction of Colour”...
Editor’s Note: Want to know more about what it takes to develop an award-winning exhibition about the lives of enslaved people at a founding father’s historic site? We did, too! In this series, we will...
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