How to Get Funding for Public History, History News Network, by David Austin Walsh, January 2, 2014.
The History News Network recently published the following article to highlight the ways in which different public history programs generate interest, community support, and funding. Both the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida and “History Moves” at the University of Chicago are highlighted. Dr. Ortiz details SPOHP’s approach, which engages several different angles: “sending students out into local communities, building bridges, emphasizing hard skills, and above all aggressively advocating for resources.”
“We’ve made the argument to administrators,” [Dr. Paul Ortiz] said Thursday in a session at the American Historical Association annual meeting, “that public history is actually a STEM field of sorts, because students learn skills about social networking, writing, researching, and audio/visual production.”