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"History@Work" is a multi-authored, multi-interest blog sponsored by the National Council on Public History as a digital meeting place--a commons--for all those with an interest in the practice and study of history in public.

Editor's note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons. The Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum, April 20, 2013. NCPH Annual Meeting ...

Eight events in Ames Public Library's early history
Ames Tribune
It took nearly 17 years for Ames to achieve a public library from the first local library service in 1886.

Windows Into Wauwatosa offers peek inside community's history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wauwatosa Public Works Building will open for public exploration, and more than 160 pieces of equipment will be shined up for the occasion.

Philly.com (blog) Pox and the City: A public health history game Philly.com (blog) It has been my privilege to serve as one of the historical consultants to Pox and the City, a digital role-playing game for the history of medicine.The game lets...

This day in Jewish history / An American anti-Semitism scandal goes public
Haaretz
This day in Jewish history / An American anti-Semitism scandal goes public.

 
Landmarks: Painted Gardens, Part 1—Boxwood Manor
 
Boxwood Manor, Garden Wall; postcard. LHSA
 
The dazzling displays of Old Lyme’s gardens have captured the eye of painters and photographers for more than a century.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. African Americans have played major roles in building the great American experience and building the history of the United States.

Editor's note: This post continues the series of conference city reviews published by The Public Historian in the Public History Commons. The Ultimate Field Trip! April 20, 2013. NCPH Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ...

The PoP Committee is thrilled to confirm that in conjunction with The Centre for the History of European Discourses, Perspectives on Progress 2013 will host a Public Plenary Session by Professor David Christian of Macquarie ...

The book was first published in 1988 and is now in its third edition because of its enormous popularity in college courses on historic preservation, architectural history, and public history. There is another significant birthday ...

The Lois McClure Embarks On A Floating History Tour
New Hampshire Public Radio
This summer she's sailing historic waterways in Vermont, New York, Ontario and Quebec, docking in towns for a history lesson.

Traveling Art Exhibit Addresses Painful Elements Of Black History Wisconsin Public Radio News “It is a piece that very powerfully and disturbingly talks about an ugly moment in United States history, and lynching, which was one of the Klan's...

Even baby's names here are small exercises in public history. There was a time in American history when Americans named their children George Washington This or Benjamin Franklin That, after the founders of the United ...

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, Ontario, Canada.

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