Time Traveling in Delaware State Parks
About a year and a half ago, at the end of my first week as the new Cultural Preservation Specialist at Delaware State Parks, my new boss said to me,…
Ethics
#SHA2016 Ethics Bowl: Let’s Get Ethical!
Good morning SHA members! For this week’s #SHA2016 conference post, Jade Luiz, graduate student at Boston University, discusses the upcoming #SHA2016 Ethics Bowl. Please read below to learn more! As…
Nazis, Ethics and Tolerance
Last week a student rushed into my office exclaiming “My God Dr. Ewen, have you seen this video on the National Geographic Website!?!” A little while later I received an…
Ethics: Who Decides?
Ethic – n. rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad. (Webster’s online dictionary) And for our members across the pond, the Oxford dictionary defines…
Register for the SHA’s First Student Ethics Bowl
This year the SHA annual meeting has new exciting opportunities for students. For the first time, The SHA and its Student Subcommittee, aided by the Ethics Committee, are sponsoring their…
Open Minds, Clearer Signals – Metal Detectorist and Archaeologist Cooperation Takes Another Step
The following post discusses the first metal detecting workshop open to the general public, directed by the Montpelier Archaeology Department this Spring. The post was co-authored by Dr. Matthew Reeves,…
National Geographic’s Diggers: is it better?
UPDATE: This post by Charlie Ewen has received a great deal of response, both here on the blog and in backchannels. Because the SHA Blog is a space for dialogue and…
Diversity and Difference in SHA
In 2012 the SHA has been active on a number of fronts, and this month I want to examine two of those that I think are exceptionally important to the…
If You’re a Student in Leicester!
Every SHA annual conference has programming of interest to and specifically geared towards students. Leicester will be no different. Here are some of the coming conference offerings students might want…
National Geographic’s Diggers Redux
In my previous blog I reported on a meeting I attended at the National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the problems with their reality show, Diggers (not to be…