Get to Know MARCH at Conferences This Fall
MARCH will have a presence at several Mid-Atlantic and national conferences this fall. Each of the panels we have organized seeks to encourage conversations among practitioners of public humanities in...
View ArticleNew York Metro American Studies Association
The New York Metro American Studies Association has chosen the theme of “Memory” for our annual conference. Memory operates on a number of registers: What do we choose to remember? What do we chose to...
View ArticleHelp MARCH Plan the Ultimate Staff Seminar (Or…?)
Heading to Baltimore next week for the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference? If so, please join us on Monday, October 10, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for “Museums and Scholarship: Creating...
View ArticleWe’re in the News Challenge – You Can Help!
In the MARCH tradition of forming powerful collaborations, we are working on an exciting new project, “Backgrounder,” which will provide journalists with links to historical background information,...
View ArticleJoin us for the Miller Lecture in Public History, May 8
This year for the Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture in Public History, we are pleased to provide a forum for discussion of libraries and technology, focusing especially on the project to create a...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Story?
This fall, graduate students at Rutgers-Camden will create a newsletter-style Public History Year in Review for 2012 in Philadelphia, southeastern Pennsylvania, and South Jersey. The project will be...
View ArticleMARCH joins The Public Historian editorial team
The editorial team of The Public Historian, the leading journal in the field of public history, will grow this spring to include a co-editor and two international consulting editors. The National...
View ArticleJob: MARCH Public Historian in Residence(Co-Editor, The Public Historian)
We are pleased to invite applications for a new full-time staff position at MARCH, located in the Cooper Street Historic District on the campus of Rutgers-Camden. The primary responsibility of the...
View ArticleJoseph J. Kelly, former headof Pennsylvania Humanities Council
We are saddened to learn of the death of Joseph J. Kelly, a valued friend and colleague in public humanities in Pennsylvania and the region. Kelly, who led the Pennsylvania Humanities Council from...
View ArticleDr. Mary Rizzo will join MARCH,become co-editor of The Public Historian
Together with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mary Rizzo to the position of...
View ArticlePublic History Boot Camp Gains National Attention
We’re proud to see the MARCH Public History Boot Camp featured on the front page of the latest issue of Public History News, the newsletter of the National Council on Public History. The article, by...
View ArticleNational Endowment for the Humanities Awards Two-Year Grant for the...
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia project, based at MARCH, reached an important milestone this week with the awarding of a two-year, $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the...
View ArticleTransitions at MARCH
With regret, but also with pride, we announce that MARCH is undergoing some transition as very talented staff members take the next steps in their careers. Mary Rizzo, who has been Public Historian in...
View ArticleJob: MARCH Public Historian in Residence (Co-Editor, The Public Historian)
We are pleased to invite applications for a full-time staff position at MARCH, located on the campus of Rutgers-Camden. The primary responsibility of the Public Historian in Residence will be to serve...
View ArticleSummer 2015 Call for Authors – Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, based at MARCH, continues to grow, and we are pleased to extend our call for authors to include new subject categories. For the summer of 2015, our expansion...
View ArticleDr. Tamara Gaskell will join MARCH, become Co-Editor of The Public Historian
Together with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Tamara Gaskell to the position of...
View ArticleCall for Authors: The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, produced at MARCH, has reached a milestone of 250 published topics and now seeks authors for the next sixth-month phase of expansion. The new call for authors...
View ArticleJoin us on Rutgers Day for Discovery Tours and Encyclopedia Fun
April 30 is Rutgers Day, and the MARCH team will be there to offer a close-up look at two of our ongoing research and civic engagement projects: the Cooper Street Historic District and The Encyclopedia...
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Revisiting a Preview: The National Museum of African American History
Pre-construction rendering of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, adjacent to the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. Drawing by Freelon Adjaye Bond/Smith Group, the...
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This Month at MARCH
Because MARCH makes its home on a college campus, the new school year is always a time of renewed energy. This September has been a month of extraordinary transformations for our center, its programs,...
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