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Upgrading the historian

September 15, 2015October 14, 2015 Public History Student 11 Comments

Author: Maddie van Leenders One stereotype of the historian is that he is intimidated by, maybe even frightened for, but also reluctant to use new digital possibilities to do and present their historical research. Frankly, I am among them. Although the historians of this generation get more in touch with these techniques, by courses during […]

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Let’s get physical.

September 14, 2015October 1, 2015 Public History Student 14 Comments

‘The real other? Museum objects in digital contact networks’ by C. Hogsden and E.K. Poulter In ‘The real other? Museum objects in digital contact networks’ Hogdsen and Poulter go into the idea of virtually portraying objects in museums and beyond the borders of museums. Using examples of projects at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archeology […]

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Gathering history online

September 8, 2015September 8, 2015 Public History Student 18 Comments

In an age of technological improvement, history seems no longer solely to be found in books and documents in archives, museums, universities and other traditional institutions. We have reached a moment when most people in the Western world have a computer with connection to the internet which they know how to use. This instrument is […]

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History screams for less screens

September 7, 2015September 8, 2015 Public History Student 22 Comments

Author: José Boon In ‘Technology becomes the object’, the American anthropologist Gwyneira Isaac discusses the role of electronic media at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). The main question is to what extent new technology can help in transferring a message. Besides the fact that the history of American Indians is a […]

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Paul Knevel on NCPH blog

September 3, 2015September 3, 2015 Manon Parry 22 Comments

MA Coordinator Paul Knevel responds to Jerome de Groot’s essay in the new issue of The Public Historian on the National Council on Public History online forum, Public History Commons: “In our aim to understand the practice and consequences of genealogy and family history, public historians should not only write about the practitioners in the […]

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