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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...

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Online 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...

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NPS 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...

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AASLH 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...

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Searching 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...

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NPS 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...

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Exhibit: 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....

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The 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...

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Home 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...

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Winterthur 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...

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Visualizing 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...

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Summer 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...

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A 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...

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Student 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)...

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Through 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...

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Reception 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...

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Congressional 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...

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New 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...

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Telling 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...

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Save 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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