Category Archives: Public History

Lincoln

Posted on November 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

My wife and I went out on Thursday for just the third time since our son’s birth, this time to see Lincoln. Several historians chimed in with their opinions and evaluations at film’s release. Kate Masur, a historian of slavery … Continue reading →

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Obama Presidential Library Part 2

Posted on August 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

To continue my discussion from Part 1, not only should the Obama Presidential Library and Museum be located in Chicago, it should be affiliated with the University of Chicago. This is not a particularly controversial proposition — many of the … Continue reading →

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The Obama Presidential Library, Part One

Posted on August 2, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Discussion about the location of the Obama Presidential Library and Museum has been surfacing in a handful of media sources (and fan sites). Most recently, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article with pre-emptive criticism of an effort to bring the … Continue reading →

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Case Statement for NCPH New Deal Working Group

Posted on February 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

See this post for background on the NCPH Working Group. As other members of the working group have noted, academic historians and popular audiences alike tend to recognize the importance of the New Deal and much of its legacy.1 In … Continue reading →

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Reconstructing the New Deal

Posted on February 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

NCPH Working Group: 10. Reconstructing the New Deal: Towards a National Inventory of New Deal Art and Public Works Facilitators: Eileen Eagan, University of Southern Maine; eagan@usm.maine.edu Gray Brechin, University of California at Berkeley; gbrechin@berkeley.edu Sean Lent, Independent Scholar; sean.lent@maine.edu … Continue reading →

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Historians and the Public

Posted on October 4, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Thomas Bender, from a recent paper on historians and public engagement: The scholar, for Dewey, does not approach the public as an expert, but rather as one of the public. But, and this is crucial, he or she is a … Continue reading →

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Temple University Public History

Posted on September 21, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Two short videos I put together with Seth Bruggeman to help explain and promote the public history program at Temple University. One on Temple and History, the other on how public history differs from traditional historical training (and what it … Continue reading →

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Teaching Digital History Part II

Posted on September 17, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Good things to build on in the digital history course: In each case, students came out of the class with a basic level of comfort with a variety of digital media tools that they would not otherwise have approached. One … Continue reading →

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Teaching Digital History Part I

Posted on September 14, 2011 by LaDale Winling

The occasion of going public with my graduate class’ semester project in digital history got me thinking about the course more broadly, particularly as I’m (re)developing it for the upcoming semester at Virginia Tech. I have taught the class twice, … Continue reading →

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Getting a Job in Public History

Posted on April 10, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Matthew Yglesias’ post on advice for becoming a journalist reminded me that a couple weeks back I was asked to be on a panel at the Temple University history grad student conference on getting job in public history. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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