Clik here to view.
Unfamiliar terrain: Reevaluating a landmark’s past (Part 1)
Cliveden is best known for its associations with the Battle of Germantown during the Revolutionary War. Through the support of the Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan, I recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unfamiliar terrain: Reevaluating a landmark’s past (Part 2)
To address the issue of how to make historic designation and documentation a part of Cliveden’s ongoing dialogue with its various publics, the site sponsored a forum themed around the question “Do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Project Showcase: Vermont Marble Museum and the Preservation Trust of Vermont
The Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor, Vermont Located in Proctor, Vermont, The Vermont Marble Museum tells the story of the Vermont Marble Company — once the largest marble company in the world....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will digital crowdfunding work for your next project?
Nikola Tesla’s lab building at Wardenclyffe, 1904 In August, 2012, an extraordinary thing happened: a small museum, dubbed the Friends of Science East (FSE, now the Tesla Science Center at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conference (P)review #1: Rideau Street Convent Chapel
Editor’s note: In preparation for the upcoming NCPH conference in Ottawa, The Public Historian has commissioned a series of Ottawa site reviews, as it does annually for sites in our conference city....
View ArticleClik here to view.
NCPH 2013 Student Project Award: Learning from community
The congregation of Cedar Grove Baptist, one of the two churches in Terra Cotta, in the 1930sPhoto courtesy Dennis Waddell. Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I stumbled into preserving history
Poster from first May Day rally officially allowed by the Turkish government since 1977. The rally brought 200,000 people to Taksim Square in Istanbul. The poster uses the image from the rally held in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Post Conference Review #4: Rideau Canal Tour
Editor’s note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons Rideau Canal Tour, April 20, 2013,. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Public history and sustainability: An overview and invitation
As part of a 350.org demonstration of the effects of climate change, people in Mongolia point out a drought-diminished river. (Photo: 350.org) Public historians have long engaged with environmental...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We were “doing” place (before place was cool)
The Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island was the first property listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Juli) The first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places turned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New uses for old interviews II: Wrapping it up
Back in February I wrote about some of the challenges of donating old interviews done during graduate school in the 1990s for newspapers to the Atlanta History Center’s archives as oral histories....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insta-Memory: Dismantling the Boston Marathon bombing memorial
The City of Boston took down the Boston Marathon Memorial on June 25. The memorial began life at the sites of the twin bombings on Boylston Street in the immediate aftermath of the explosions there on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Documenting gentrification: A video rough cut
In 1975 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development designated a one-square-mile part of Decatur, Georgia an Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program neighborhood. The designation meant that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading the artifact: A stove from a transitional moment
The authors chose this enigmatic little stove for their week-long exploration. (Source: Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, No. 1981.0040) In August 2012, a group of 26 doctoral students...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An invitation: Help us identify the top 15 articles on preservation in The...
The wreck of the wooden cargo ship Australasia on the bottom of Lake Michigan is one of the recent new listings in the National Register of Historic Places. (Image: National Register) In the nomination...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading the artifact: The story in the archives
The brochure that accompanied the mystery stove. (Source: Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, No. L11201) Read Part I of this series here. On the second day of the Reading Artifacts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deadline is Nov. 1 for TPH/NHPA nominations
A few weeks ago, I asked readers of History@Work to nominate articles on historic preservation and place from The Public Historian for a yearlong conversation in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading the artifact: From inquiry to interpretation
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. A Nash Motor Home, one of the artifacts “read” in the RASI class. Photo credit: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Nash Motor Car Company, 1983.0258, 2012 On the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bridging the new digital divide: Open records in the age of digital reproduction
Deed books line the walls of the DeKalb County, Ga., land records research room. Photo credit: David S. Rotenstein. The depression of 1893 hit the Atlanta Suburban Land Company hard. The Georgia firm,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How much do public historians care about issues of environmental...
A 90-kilowatt solar array is one of the first things visitors see at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Photo credit: Cathy Stanton. As part of its ongoing efforts to facilitate...
View Article
