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Managing Editors
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Associate
Editors
If you are interested in contributing
5-10 hours a month in the development of this resource and would like to be
officially recognized as an Associate Editor, please contact editors@publichistory.org
for more information.
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Advisory Editors
PHRC's advisory editors serve as a sounding board for current initiatives and
future directions of the resource. Advisory editors agree to serve for a minimum of one year
and are expected to provide substantive feedback to the managing editors twice during that
time period. Past advisory editors have included Shelley Bookspan, Barbara Howe, Edward Papenfuse, and Patricia Seed.
If you are interested in serving on PHRC's board of adivosry editors, please contact editors@publichistory.org
for more information.
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Emeritus Editors
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Contributors
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History of PHRC
The impetus for this site came from a guest talk
given by Philip Cantelon of History Associates in a graduate level History class
(HIST 619) during the Spring 1999 semester at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Cantelon had been invited by the course's professor, Dr. Ed. Papenfuse-- the
Archivist of the State of Maryland-- to give a talk on careers in public
history. During his talk, Cantelon handed out a chart he had
developed entitled "Careers for Graduates in History." After listening to the talk,
five members of that class were inspired to design a group project geared toward filling in a certain gap in publicly available,
easily accessible knowledge pertaining to the field of Public History. We wanted
to explore not only the myriad careers available to history graduates but also to
provide contextual information for
students, professionals, and others interested in the field by introducing
the history, literature, Web sites, and educational programs of Public
History.
At the end of that semester, four of these students came together to
formally organize as the Public History Resource Center, believing that this was
the best way to ensure further development and maintenance of the resource that had
been developed. Constituting themselves as PHRC's Managing Editors, they developed an institutional structure
where www.publichistory.org is the main publication and business development of the
larger organization.
1999-2000
During its first year of development, PHRC
formed a Board of Advisory Editors and saw continual growth in
both the content of the site and its user base.
2000-2001
During its second year, PHRC's managing editors retooled their criteria for evaluating Web sites, developed a point-based rating system, and began
soliciting calls for reviews of thematically related online public history sites each quarter. During that year, 21 Web sites related to Women's History, World's Fairs, Colonial American History, and the U.S. Civil War were reviewed.
2001-2002
In early 2001, PHRC's managing editors traveled to the American Association for History and Computing's annual conference to present the
site and to discuss and demonstrate the evaluation system. We then learned that the site had been
awarded the National Council on Public History's Student Project Award of the year. Debra DeRuyver traveled to Ottawa, Canada, in late April to accept the award on behalf of all of the managing editors and
to present the project in a poster session. 2001 also brought changes to PHRC's managing editor team as James Melzer and Emma Wilmer stepped down as
editors.
2002-2003
Due to the changes in the editorial team, PHRC went into a hibernation period for most of 2002, as its two remaining managing editors thought about next steps for the project. Beginning with the site's redesign and relaunch in February 2003,
the editors are now focusing on renewing the quarterly publication of reviews and looking into possible ways to ensure the site's long term
sustainability, including applying for grant opportunities, and becoming a 501C3 non-profit
organization.
Our
goal remains the same as when we began: to develop a permanent, dynamic, quality online resource covering all aspects of
the field of public history.
PHRC's Constitution
The editors are in the process of revising the original constitution which was adopted on August 26, 1999, by PHRC's original board of managing editors.
PHRC's Policies
Read about the
following policies: privacy policy, copyright policy, editorial policy,
associate editor policy, review update policy, and site update policy.
Pictures on Our Site
All of the photographs on our site are in the public domain.
Complete citation information is available on our Cite
Map.
