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Project Showcase: Each Moment a Mountain
Each Moment a Mountain is a public history and digital humanities project that celebrates art and thought inspired by the wealth of materials housed in freely available digital archives. Showcased are...
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NCPH 2013 Project Award: The power of place within us
Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Yolanda Chávez Leyva, co-director of...
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Embodying the archive (Part 1): Art practice, queer politics, public history
E.G. Crichton’s “Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archives” project connected living people with archival partners. Here, Elisa Parry with Pat Parker. Portrait by and courtesy of E.G. Crichton. “All we...
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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....
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Embodying the archive (Part 2): Lineages, longings, migrations
From the opening reception of Migrating Archives, on current exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society. Courtesy of E.G. Crichton. The second part of this art and public history conversation series...
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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...
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The telephonic heart: A “machine autopsy” in Ottawa
This spring, I’ve been teaching an urban anthropology class at Tufts University. In the class session before I left for the National Council on Public History conference, we talked about how digital...
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Art, history, and interpretation
View from the South Asian Gallery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art | Credit: Mekala Kirshnan I recently started a new position at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Curatorial and Interpretation...
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The bubble and the tent: Keeping culture accessible at the Smithsonian...
With the resignations of the Hirshhorn Museum’s director and the chairman of its board of trustees this summer, the Bubble, or Seasonal Inflatable Structure, project (at left) has collapsed in a very...
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Art, history, and interpretation: Gauging visitors’ responses
Read Part I of this series here. The first big step in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s re-installation process was to conduct visitor research. How do visitors feel about the current South Asian...
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Community engagement across disciplinary boundaries
Conference Poster. Photo credit: Arts Extension Service at UMass Amherst. For most of my experience as a public-historian-in-training, I did not often think about the arts in any purposeful way. I...
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History without vision: A struggle over art at the City Museum of New York
Mike Alewitz’s “The City at the Crossroads of History” mural was commissioned for the City Museum of New York, which has declined to display it. Photo credit: Mike Alewitz Muralist and activist Mike...
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Fragile history in a gentrifying neighborhood
Valetta Anderson at an Atlanta Studies Network event in 2014. Photo credit: David Rotenstein Over the past few years, I have been writing about gentrification and how it intersects with history in an...
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Project Showcase: Lakota Emergence
The Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS) in South Dakota will present an innovative exhibit in early May 2015 called “Lakota Emergence.” The exhibit focuses entirely on the...
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Exhibiting a unique artistic legacy at the South Side Community Art Center
“A Great Day In Bronzeville,” May 28, 2005. Photo credit: John Moye Editor’s Note: This post is part of a special online section accompanying issue 37(2) of The Public Historian, guest edited by Lisa...
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Guantánamo Public Memory Project: Three experiments in public engagement by...
Editor’s Note: This piece continues a series of posts related to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration of public history programs across the country to raise awareness of the long...
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Keeping the faith: Political cartoons in and out of the archives
“I am Charlie” has become the expression of solidarity of people around the world in support of the French weekly newspaper following the January 7, 2015 attack. Photo credit: Robert Couse-Baker The...
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I, Too, Sing America: Integrating the voices of all Americans in historic...
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its...
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