Category: What’s New?

 

Three graduate students have received Internship Completion Awards for the fall semester:  Kimberly Coulter, who interned with the Remer & Talbott consulting firm; Kathleen Leonard, who interned at the Please Touch Museum; and Benjamin Thompson, who interned at the Urban Archives, Temple University, and The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. These awards of up to $500 are given to students who complete public history internships successfully with a grade of A or B and whose costs of tuition exceeded their compensation for the internships. The funds were donated to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) to honor the retirement of Howard Gillette, who requested that they be used to support graduate training in public history.

Professor Charlene Mires will discuss  her book, Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations at the Philadelphia History Museum on April 3, from 5-7 p.m.  Register here https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e75sashf8e50ea7f&llr=9mazh9cab

You can read her blog at https://capital-of-the-world.com/

Shannon Keller & Melissa Wesson will participate in a panel “Using Digital History in the Classroom and Community,” at the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) and the Society for History in the Federal Government conference at the National Archives II in College Park, MD, April 4-5, 2013.  They will co-present with Dr. Maria Gonzalez, who taught their advanced public history seminar in fall 2012. 

The Public Historian, the leading journal in the field of public history, is being joined by an editor at Rutgers Camden’s own Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities.  Read all about it here: https://march.rutgers.edu/2013/02/17/march-joins-the-public-historian-editorial-team/