Racial Realities: Writing about Race in the First Person
From Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Join writer & oral historian, Svetlana Kitto, for a literature and writing workshop focusing on fiction, memoir, oral history, and essay forms that...
View ArticleColumbia offers Summer Oral History Institute
From CCOHR: The Center for Oral History Research/INCITE has announced its 2014 Oral History Institute, “Second Generation Memories and Stories,” to be held June 16-27, 2014, at Columbia University in...
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland and Dartmouth College to Host Crowdsourcing Workshop
From the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities: “The NEH has announced the award of a Cooperative Agreement to Dartmouth College and...
View ArticleTelling Untold Histories: An Unconference for Public Historians
Much of the history I write involves absences, erasures, and silences in the historical record and I am a huge proponent of unconferences, so I was doubly excited to learn about an upcoming event that...
View ArticlePublic History Boot Camps at Rutgers-Camden
Designed for historic site administrators, museum curators, librarians and archivists, interpreters, educators, board members, volunteers, and anyone interested in creating history with and for the...
View ArticleHistory, Memory, and Disability Rights Public Humanities Program
“A regime of state-mandated segregation and degradation soon emerged that in its virulence and bigotry rivaled, and indeed paralleled, the worst excesses of Jim Crow.”–Justice Thurgood Marshall,...
View ArticleRadio Program Previews Upcoming MARCH Disability History Conference
On Sunday, October 30, 2016, Humanities Connection, a radio program sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH), focused on the topic of disability history and disability rights and...
View ArticleFind Your Perfect Match: Grantmakers and History Organizations, Perfect Together
Date: Monday, April 10 Time: 9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m Location: Cherry Hill Public Library, 1100 Kings Hwy N, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Cost: $25 (includes lunch) Maybe you have a great idea for an exhibit, or...
View ArticleMARCH Sponsors New Certificate Program in Historic Preservation
North side of 400 block of Cooper Street, c. 1916. Courtesy of the Camden County Historical Society. An innovative new program at Rutgers University–Camden will offer participants a unique opportunity...
View ArticleMarch at MARCH Workshops
Throughout March, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) will host a series of workshops that will feature our public humanities faculty fellows in person on the first floor of 325...
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