4th Annual Public History Community Forum
The 4th Annual PubComm highlighted exhibit design, development, engagement and outreach, collections, and writing. Photo courtesy of Kim Coulter On Saturday, April 26, 2013, nearly 50 graduate students...
View ArticleOnline exhibit, Voices of the Vigil focuses on DC’s Soviet Jewry Movement
From H-DC: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (JHSGW), Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum has launched an online exhibit titled, Voices of the Vigil. The project uses primary...
View ArticleNPS Launches LGBT Sites Initiative
From the New York Times: The National Park Service will begin considering more sites important to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender history in the United States, with the assistance of a panel of...
View ArticleAASLH Announces Leadership in History Award Winners
From The American Association of State and Local History: The American Association of Local and State History recently announced the recipients of its annual Leadership in History Awards. This marks...
View ArticleSearching for a usable past in the Hudson Valley
Vanderbilt place in Hyde Park. Image courtesy of the author. I passed a wonderful late June week traveling the Hudson River Valley from the Vanderbilt estate in Hyde Park, New York, south along...
View ArticleNPS Awards $1.3M in Battlefield Preservation Grants
From NPS.gov: The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) has awarded $1.359 million in grants to 21 projects. The monies will be used in the preservation and protection of battlefield lands...
View ArticleExhibit: Investigating Where We Live
From the National Building Museum: In 1996 the National Building Museum instituted Investigating Where we Live, a program bringing together middle and high school students from Washington D.C....
View ArticleThe Guns of August and The Dogs of War: Remembering and Forgetting America’s...
This display of period propaganda posters at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City is one of many rooms portraying Americans experiences in the Great War. Moreover, fully half the museum...
View ArticleHome Before The Leaves Fall
28th Division parading down Chestnut Street, photograph, circa 1917, Philadelphia War Photograph Committee collection [V03] The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.“Home Before the Leaves Fall: The...
View ArticleWinterthur Accepting Research Fellowship Applications
From Winterthur: Winterthur’s Academic Programs department is now accepting applications for its 2015-2016 Research Fellowship Program. Short- and long-term residential fellowships are open to...
View ArticleVisualizing 19th Century New York
From the Bard Graduate Center: A new exhibit on the visual culture of nineteenth century New York City will open on Friday, September 19, 2014 at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. “Visualizing 19th...
View ArticleSummer fruits of the humanities
Sketch of William Franklin, governor of New Jersey, 1763-1776, from “Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors,” Image courtesy of the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area. Recent...
View ArticleA Sad Summer
Jay Gaynor with some of the products of the Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades Program. (Photo from Colonial Williamsburg) In the past month and a half, we studiers and practitioners of historic...
View ArticleStudent Community Action Tours: Using the Humanities to Develop Leadership...
Students at Brooklyn’s High School for Enterprise, Business & Technology introduce the Williamsburg Activism Walking Tour, the culminating activity of the Student Community Action Tours (SCAT)...
View ArticleThrough a Lens, Clearly: The Civil Rights Movement in the Camera’s Eye
Striking sanitation workers assembling for a solidarity march, holding signs reading “I AM A MAN,” Memphis, March 28, 1968. Photography by Ernest C. Withers, from the collection of the National Museum...
View ArticleReception and Lecture to Honor Dr. Martin Levitt, Librarian at the American...
The Temple University Department of History, the American Philosophical Society, and the Temple University Alumni Association have announced a special reception and lecture in honor of Dr. Martin...
View ArticleCongressional Research Grants Available for 2015 from The Dirksen...
From H-Digital History: The Dirksen Congressional Center is inviting applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U. S. Congress. The Center has allocated $50,000 in...
View ArticleNew Jersey Heritage Tourism Requesting Proposals for Theme Development
From the State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and the New Jersey Historic Trust: The New Jersey Historical Trust is seeking proposals from a consultant team to develop theme-based...
View ArticleTelling Untold Histories: An Unconference for Public Historians
Much of the history I write involves absences, erasures, and silences in the historical record and I am a huge proponent of unconferences, so I was doubly excited to learn about an upcoming event that...
View ArticleSave the Date: April 10, 2015 Annual Miller Memorial Lecture Featuring...
Save the Date: April 10, 2015 Annual Miller Memorial Lecture Featuring Historian and Curator Katherine Ott We are pleased to announce Katherine Ott, a public historian and curator at the Smithsonian...
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