Found History

Many Found History readers will know that I have recently moved full-time to Connecticut, working remotely and traveling to Fairfax four or five days each month to meet with the gang at CHNM. Since moving north, I have been lucky to make a slew of new friends and colleagues in the bustling New England public [...]

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A few years back I had the bright idea to launch a second podcast (Digital Campus being the first). It languished. In fact, I only ever managed to record three episodes. The last one was recorded in February 2008. It’s time to retire the website, but I don’t want to lose what I believe is [...]

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Here is a partial list of places an easy workday’s drive from Pensacola, FL: Athens, GA Atlanta, GA Auburn, AL Baton Rouge, LA Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Birmingham, AL Chattanooga, TN Gainsville, FL Hattiesburg, MS Huntsville, AL Jackson, MS Jacksonville, FL Knoxville, TN Lake Charles, LA Macon, GA Memphis, TN Mobile, AL Montgomery, AL Nashville, [...]

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Things are looking up for digitally minded public historians. At least six new media focused tenure-track academic public history positions are open this fall, including: University of Central Florida, Director of Public History/Tenured Senior Associate or Full professor University of Central Florida, Assistant or Associate Professor in Digital and Public History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and [...]

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The boards of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the National Council on Public History have approved a single set of best practices for evaluating public history scholarship in history departments. The advice is outlined in a new report [.pdf] entitled Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian. Acknowledging that [...]

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A knowledge of digital history theories and methods is quickly becoming essential for public historians. More and more, digital history is a required part of the public history graduate curriculum. A panel at the (now-not-so-recent) meeting of the National Council on Public History featured public history students engaged in this new digitally-infused curriculum. Organized and [...]

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The digital humanities are well represented this week at the National Council for Public History annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. By my count, fully nine of the approximately ninety sessions, workshops, working groups, and posters are either entirely or partially dedicated to the web and other digital outlets for public history. This equals the nine [...]

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The Rosenzweig Forum for Digital Humanities returns this month with a program entitled “Negotiating the Cultural Turn(s): Subjectivity, Sustainability, and Authority in the Digital Humanities.” On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Murray Room of Lauinger Library at Georgetown University, Tim Powell and Bethany Nowviskie will address and open a [...]

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The annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is only six weeks away, and CHNM will be there in force. On Thursday, March 11, we will be running a working group to help “Jump Start Your Digital Project in Public History.” On Saturday, March 13, we will be running a special workshop [...]

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For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships, especially with a company called Footnote.com. These partnerships provide NARA with free digitization services, and visitors to NARA’s reading rooms with access to the products, but allow Footnote.com and NARA’s other private partners to charge [...]

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