NJCH Executive Director to Step Down in June
The Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities will be stepping down from her position in June, […]
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Call for Papers: War/After War Workshop
The Department of British Studies at Rutgers University New Brunswick has issued a call for papers for their upcoming nineteenth century history workshop, to be held October 4-5.
Call for Papers: Sports and Politics Conference
The conference, a collaboration between Queensborough Community College of New York and Nord University, Norway, will address the historical and contemporary ties between sports, sporting events, and politics.
Call for Papers: 2019 Garden and Landscapes Studies Symposium
The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library have issued a call for papers for their 2019 conference, to be held May 3-4, 2019 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.
Researcher Sentenced to Prison in Archives Theft Case
A historian was sentenced by a federal court on April 9 for the theft of at least 291 World War […]
PubComm Raises Questions of Race and Activism
On Thursday, April 5, graduate students from MARCH collaborated with the Center for Public History at Temple University and the Albert Lepage […]
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Historic Preservation Continuing Education
There is no better place to learn the processes and techniques of historic preservation than the living laboratory of Camden and nearby Philadelphia. The Historic Preservation Continuing Education Program at Rutgers-Camden promotes the importance of historic preservation in communities by bringing together students and a wide range of active professionals in the field. The program offers courses, workshops, and the option of earning a continuing education certificate in historic preservation.
Learn MoreEncyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Based at MARCH, with numerous community partners, The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. From abolition and the American Revolution to yellow fever and zoos (with cheesesteaks, rowhouses, and hundreds of other topics in between), the digital Encyclopedia and print volume will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region.
Learn MoreMARCH Professional Services
MARCH Professional Services provides professional historical consulting services at a reasonable cost to non-profit and community organizations across the Greater Philadelphia area. Our trained historians and professionals in allied fields are available for research projects, educational tours and programming, exhibition design, preservation projects, digital engagement, and more.
Learn MorePartnerships & Affiliations
National Council on Public History
MARCH is pleased to host the co-editor’s office for The Public Historian, a journal published by the National Council on Public History and the University of California-Santa Barbara. MARCH supports the NCPH mission to “inspire public engagement with the past and serve the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world by building community among historians, expanding professional skills and tools, fostering critical reflection on historical practice, and publicly advocating for history and historians.”
Learn MoreHistory@Work
- Project Showcase: Science History Institute’s History Lab
- Pop-up Ofrenda: Interactive Remembrance and Healing
- Archiving the 1 October web
- Terra incognita: Navigating life as the only professionally-trained historian at work
- Agriculture and public history: A working group
- Neon City: Power lines and plundered lands
AASLH
MARCH is an institutional member of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), “a national association that provides leadership and support for its members who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all people.” Webinars from AASLH are among the programs offered at MARCH for public humanities professionals in the South Jersey/Philadelphia region.
Learn MoreMARCH promotes collaboration, innovation, and best practices in public humanities.
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