A listing of historical consultants, by state, is available on the site, and people looking for employment can submit a c.v. to the site's c.v. bank. Overall, the site does a good job at giving people a general overview of public history's contours however, it does little to fill in those spaces. Back to Online Resources table of contents . As a public list, you do not have to be a member to join. A wide variety of public history practitioners post to the list, including university employed historians, corporate workers, and government and non-profit employees.
Posts average five or six per day.
Although academics make up part of the list, the focus of the discussion is on how public history is practiced in the field, not how it is taught or practiced within the university. Of all the lists examined by this PHRC editor, ACRA easily comes out on top in terms of helping list members understand the issues circulating throughout the practice of public history. ACRA is especially useful because it archives the messages sent through the list and makes them publicly available on their Web site. Back to Online Resources table of contents . Sponsored by the N.E.H. and hosted through Michigan State University, H-Net is the largest collection of broad, topically oriented history discussion lists available.