Examples
The National Council on Public History's Robert Kelley Memorial Award, “honors distinguished and outstanding achievements by individuals, institutions, non-profit or corporate entities for having made significant inroads in making history relevant to individual lives of ordinary people outside of academia.” Its recipients reflect a broad mix of scholarly, governmental, and popular projects:
- 2012 - Lindsey Reed, Managing Editor of The Public Historian
- 2010 – Richard Allan Baker, United States Senate Historical Office
- 2008 – Alan S. Newell, Historical Research Associates, Inc.
- 2006 – Dwight T. Pitcaithley, National Park Service
- 2004 – The Government and Citizens of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in, First Native Peoples of the Klondike
- 2002 – The University of South Carolina Public History Program
- 2001 – Debra Bernhardt, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University
- 1999 – Otis L.Graham Jr., University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- 1998 – The American Social History Project
- 1997 – Page Putnam Miller, Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (now the National Coalition for History)
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“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)