public history

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• SOURCE: NCPH
  9/11/19
  

  Jim McGrath on Podcasts and Public History

  by Jim McGrath

  "This post is a reflection on my ongoing experiences with podcasts as a listener, creator, and collaborator."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• SOURCE: NCPH
  8/29/19
  

  National Council on Public History Launches "The Inclusive Historian's Handbook"

  The handbook is a co-sponsored living digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/28/19
  

  Washington Post Publishes Five Essays On What Isn’t Being Talked About When Schools Teach Slavery and Features Prominent Historians

  Featuring the work of historians Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Leslie M. Harris, Walter Johnson, Daina Ramey Berry, and Andrés Reséndez. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/20/19
  

  It's time the public had a share in the past again

  by Diána Vonnák

  What we can learn about heritage-based urban renewal from Lviv, Ukraine. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/23/19
  

  Setting the historical record straight for the critics of The New York Times project on slavery in America

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  Conservative characterizations oversimplify the complex history of the slave trade and discourage important conversations about, and an understanding of, American history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum

  Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.

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• SOURCE: Humanities Indicators
  Accessed 8/22/19
  

  Visits to historic sites rising in U.S.

  Read the latest report from Humanities Indicators!

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/13/19
  

  Help the New York Times Create a Walking Map of Women's History

  Researchers estimate that women’s stories make up just 0.5 percent of recorded history. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/21/19
  

  USA Today Announces Crowd-Sourcing Black History Project

  USA TODAY is asking readers to share what they know about their family history with our journalists in 2019.

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  8/14/19
  

  1619 Project: New York Times Magazine Publishes Special Edition Dedicated to American Slavery and Its Legacies

  The powerful collection includes essays by historians, poets, columnists, a variety of academics, and more.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/7/19
  

  The Increasing Popularity of Hotel Historians

  Part reference librarian, part gossip columnist, the hotel historian has become an increasingly popular figure in high-end hotels or inns with actual history. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  https://www.apnews.com/33adc66aee4c40cea19d6049bb6
  

  'History on a stick’ signs disappearing too fast to keep up

  Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.

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• 7/7/19
  

  Jimmy Carter, Public Historian

  by Evan A. Kutzler

  The work that the Carters do at the local level meets the National Council on Public History's inclusive definition of the field: "public history describes the many and diverse ways in which history is put to work in the world."

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/10/2019
  

  After all who were there are gone, what happens to history?

  People are more likely to engage with history if other actual people — not facts or data or even anecdotes — can act as guides and say, even in subjectivity-saturated ways: This is what it felt like.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2019
  

  Why we’re letting Americans vote, marry and drink far too young

  by Holly N.S. White

  Age is not a perfect qualifier of ability or maturity.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2019
  

  In our tumultuous times, history offers hope

  by Katrina vanden Heuvel

  In his book, my father ceaselessly reminds us that hard work and idealism can create change.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/17/19
  

  Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates

  by J.T. Roane

  As the Director of African American History at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, she is responsible for engaging local and national audiences in conversations about slavery and its legacies.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  3/7/19
  

  American Civil War Museum CEO Christy Coleman Profiled in Forbes

  “To paraphrase Harriett Tubman,” she says, “you want change in your life, don't be afraid to trouble the waters.”

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• 3/3/19
  

  Battlefield Tourism At Ypres and How Public History Sites Change

  by Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel

  Modern Ypres or Ieper is a world forged and shaped in the furnace of a conflict that ended one hundred years ago this November.