The Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History are combining their annual meetings this year and this double-header is creating a really interesting conference for people who are working to preserve and interpret historic places.  Here are just a few sessions that caught my eye (and just a few–there are more than 200 sessions offered over five days):

• Museum and Makers:  Intersections of Public History and Technology Buffs from Steam Trains to Steampunk
• Museums, Historic Sites, and the University:  Public History Projects and Partnerships in the American Indian Great Lakes
• The Witness Tree Project:  Using Historic Landscapes to Explore History and Memory
• Toward a Reinterpretation of the Indian Wars at National Historic Sites and Parks
• Closing Up Shop:  Strategies for Partners and Communities When Historic Sites Close Continue reading →