AASLH Announces Leadership in History Award Winners
Fourteen individuals and organizations from the mid-Atlantic region have been named as recipients of the American Association of Local and State History’s Leadership in History Awards.
New York
Could the public humanities become more valuable?
Building community has turned up as a priority in a wide variety of settings around the region lately, often with the humanities in the driver’s seat. Perhaps in the season when underground bulbs send up the flowers that remind us to appreciate the beauty in nature, it is reasonable to treat the humanities a bit like those flowers. Perhaps this is a chance to take a moment to give a sniff, let our spirits be lifted, and renew our hopes for our work in a troubled world.
Columbia 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,” […]
Gilded Age New York: A Q&A with Barbara Gallati
The New-York Historical Society recently opened Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America (September 26, 2013-March 9, 2014). The exhibition—curated by Barbara […]
Horticulture and Humanities at the New York Botanical Garden
A garden may not be the first place one looks for public humanities programming, but the current exhibition at The […]
OHA 2013 Award Winners
From H-Oralhist: The Oral History Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 OHA Awards. Winners will be honored at […]
Columbia’s Master of Arts in Oral History Educates the Next Generation of Oral Historians
OHMA students learn about archival practice at a visit to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.
NEH awards 47 grants for projects in the Mid-Atlantic
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced $33 million in grants for 173 humanities projects. Special congratulations to the Mid-Atlantic […]
Artists as Docents: A Q&A with Michele Saliola of the Judd Foundation
In June, Donald Judd’s five-story home and studio, in a historic cast-iron building at the corner of Spring and Mercer […]
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, […]