Call for Presentations, Panels and Round Tables extended
Posted in Announcements on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
We will be accepting proposals until the 10th of April.
Archive for March, 2008
Margaret Conrad on the role of the historian
Posted in Thoughts on Active History, tagged Active History, CHA, Margaret Conrad, public history, public intellectuals, role of historian on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Margaret Conrad’s 2007 CHA Presidential address seems like a good place to begin a discussion on what is Active History. Feel free to leave your comments.
“In a context in which history is increasingly commodity and spectacle, it becomes necessary for academic historians to generate a dialogue with the public about the uses and abuses [...]
Two intersting journals and a question: What is “Active History”?
Posted in Announcements, tagged Active History, Left History, Radical History on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I was taking a quick look through the back issues of the Radical History Review today and came across an older issue with a great forum called: Reflections on Radical History (Winter 2001). Those of you at a university should be able to access the forum through your libraries. This forum is similar [...]
