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How much do public historians care about issues of environmental...
As part of a 2010 “planetary art show” organized by 350.org, people in Brighton-Hove, UK formed a giant image of King Canute, who famously tried to control the rising ocean. Photo credit: Malcolm Land....
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Project Showcase: Newruskinarchives
The back of this postcard reads “Engineers at Ruskin College Oxford, 1906, sent and supported by their fellow trade unionists at a cost of 1d each.” Photo source: Hilda Kean The newruskinarchives...
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Revisiting Monterey 20 years after “The Politics of Public Memory”
Norkunas’s 1993 book was an early contribution to the literature focusing on silence, history, and power. When I was researching the The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in...
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Rethinking a local historic site
Long Branch’s fields once produced vast quantities of wheat. Today, these fields are home to a herd of retired horses. Photo credit: Cassie Ward Every day I am asked, “You’re a public historian–what...
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Get your wind farm off my historic site: When visions of sustainability...
Öland’s landscape reflects 5,000 years of human habitation. Photo source: Kim Bach Off the east coast of Southern Sweden, a battle is raging between competing visions of sustainability. On the most...
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Are public and environmental history connected? Naturally.
Photo credit: “One Sky” by cobalt123 How are public history and environmental history connected? As this year’s liaison between the National Council on Public History’s Annual Meeting in Monterey and...
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Get your wind farm off my historic site: When visions of sustainability...
Large-scale wind-power developments often provoke strong pro and con feelings, as this 2008 band of satirical Cape Wind counter-protesters in Massachusetts shows. Photo credit: Phil LaCombe. Continued...
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Is Deadwood gambling with history? (Part I)
The close relationship between Deadwood’s gaming and a specific version of its history is clearly represented upon entering the town’s limits.Photo credit: Patti McNeal Twenty-five years ago, the...
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Is Deadwood gambling with history? (Part 2)
The recently destroyed Sinclair filling station, ca. 2013. Photo credit: City of Deadwood Department of Planning and Preservation Continued from Part 1. Originally built in 1927, a small, unassuming...
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Blacktop history: The case for preserving parking lots
Toco Hill Shopping Center, suburban Atlanta, c. 1961. Photo credit: Tracey O’Neal Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library In early 1950, developers...
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New initiative integrates LGBT history into NPS sites
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announcing the NPS LGBT initiative outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City, May 30, 2014. Photo credit: National Park Service Furthering its efforts to tell...
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NPS LGBT initiative: An opportunity for public historians
Chicago Pride Parade, 2006. Photo credit: Adam Dixon, Wikimedia Commons In late May, the National Park Service announced a theme study of sites associated with the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
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Project showcase: “Cotton Memories” sessions
As part of a larger project focusing on the history and legacy of cotton-picking and sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta, the non-profit organization Khafre, Inc. is holding weekly sessions...
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A side or B side? Postindustrial artisans walking a fine line (Part I)
Somerville’s Union Square has been relatively affordable within Boston’s expensive real estate market, but an impending city-led revitalization plan is already boosting prices in the neighborhood....
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“Sustaining Historic Preservation Through Community Engagement”: A...
Roundtable participants, from left to right: Ginna Foster Cannon, Rachel Boyle, Kim Connelly Hicks, Kristen Baldwin Deathridge, Eileen McMahon, Abigail Gautreau, and Theodore Karamanski. Photo credit:...
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A side or B side? Postindustrial artisans walking a fine line (Part II)
Continued from Part 1. “The B side” of the Fringe building was seen by one potential developer as part of what needs to be fixed in Union Square. Photo credit: Cathy Stanton So how did the small-scale...
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Producing history and ironwork in an urban crucible (Part I)
Sam Smith holds an axe head and displays other objects he has fabricated and some of the raw materials (many of them salvaged) that he uses in his work. Photo credit: David S. Rotenstein Sam Smith’s...
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Producing history and ironwork in an urban crucible (Part II)
Portland’s waterfront has been the site of considerable redevelopment in recent decades. Photo credit: Wendell Continued from Part 1. Portland’s gentrification and redevelopment attracted the attention...
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New tools, old tactics deployed to save a historic Atlanta Building
Former Trio Laundry Dry Cleaning Building, 20 Hilliard Street, Atlanta, Ga. Photo credit: David Rotenstein Earlier this year The New York Times dubbed Atlanta, Ga., “the city too busy to remember.” The...
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What I learned on my (public history) summer vacation
Participants gathered for a farewell photo on the final day of the seminar on the campus of Shanghai Normal University. Photo credit: Chen Xin This summer I traveled to Shanghai, China, with a group of...
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