Each year at the National Council on Public History annual meeting, public history educators discuss the failure of departmental definitions of scholarship to reflect the work of public history faculty. Although historians seem deeply resistant to recognizing scholarship in both applied history and history education, this year there were some promising signs of change. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘scholarship’
Boyerized
Posted in civic engagement, history, public history, scholarship, tagged academic, Boyer, Carnegie Foundation, Imagining America, promotion and tenure, public history, scholarship on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Historical scholarship: “it wasn’t always so”
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged Center for History and New Media, Found History, history, scholarship, Tom Scheinfeldt on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an essay, “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?” Tom Scheinfeldt suggests that the field of history is seeing a shift from a century of theoretical questions framed in monographs to a greater emphasis on methodology, collaboration, and organization. Over a century ago, he notes that bibliography was central to the academic enterprise in [...]
The Past Discussed Quarterly
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged archaeology, blog, Cliopatria, Creative Commons, peer-review, scholarship, The Past Discussed Quarterly on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Ancient World Bloggers Group has announced the publication of a new journal. The Past Discussed Quarterly (PDQ) is a serious answer to those who have been uncomfortable recognizing digital scholarship in the absence of peer review. The quarterly will “provide a bridge between bloggers in the broadest sense and non-blogging academics.” The publication does [...]
On Defining Scholarship
Posted in civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged digital history, history education, public history, public scholarship, scholarship, the academy on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Academic historians too often seek to impose, in the name of standards, a narrow definition of scholarship. Valuable historical scholarship is only, I’ve been told, peer-reviewed print scholarship about a period of time or place in the past. While oral history makes its way into the definition, public history, history education, and public [...]
