Background
Rebecca Conard was born on August 10, 1946, in Iowa, United States, to Herbert John Wiegel and Patricia (Conard) Wiegel.
San Luis Obispo, California, United States
California State Polytechnic University
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, United States
University of California
Sacramento, California, United States
Sacramento City College
4700 College Oak Dr, Sacramento, CA 95841, United States
American River College
1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260, United States
Wichita State University
1993 - 1996
National Council on Public History
1996
Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve
1995
Old Cowtown Museum
1993 - 1995
Kansas Museums Association
San Luis Obispo, California, United States
California State Polytechnic University
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, United States
University of California
4700 College Oak Dr, Sacramento, CA 95841, United States
American River College
Sacramento, California, United States
Sacramento City College
1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260, United States
Wichita State University
National Council on Public History
Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve
Old Cowtown Museum
Kansas Museums Association
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809540215/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(Resource protection and public recreation policies have a...)
Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges—all those special places that the term “park” conjures up—as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves. Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges—all those special places that the term “park” conjures up—as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877455589/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, dur...)
Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, during the early part of the twentieth century Benjamin Shambaugh (1871–1940) was a key figure in the historical profession. Using his distinguished career as a lens, Conard's seminal work is the first book to consider public history as an integral part of the intellectual development of the historical profession as a whole in the United States. Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940s biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910s and 1920s, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930s. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and assess his career within the post-World War II emergence of the modern public history movement. Shambaugh's career speaks to those who believe in the power of history to engage and inspire local audiences as well as those who believe that historians should apply their knowledge and methods outside the academy in pursuit of the greater public good. Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, during the early part of the twentieth century Benjamin Shambaugh (1871–1940) was a key figure in the historical profession. Using his distinguished career as a lens, Conard's seminal work is the first book to consider public history as an integral part of the intellectual development of the historical profession as a whole in the United States. Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940s biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910s and 1920s, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930s. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and assess his career within the post-World War II emergence of the modern public history movement. Shambaugh's career speaks to those who believe in the power of history to engage and inspire local audiences as well as those who believe that historians should apply their knowledge and methods outside the academy in pursuit of the greater public good.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877457891/?tag=2022091-20
2001
Rebecca Conard was born on August 10, 1946, in Iowa, United States, to Herbert John Wiegel and Patricia (Conard) Wiegel.
Conard received Bachelor of Science degree at the California State Polytechnic University in 1973. She then obtained Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976. Finally, she earned Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1984.
Conard began to serve at the American River College as a member of English faculty, from 1976 to 1978. That same year she worked as an instructor at the Sacramento City College. For five years from 1985 she was a member of adjunct history faculty at the University of California in Santa Barbara. From 1992 Conard held the position of an assistant professor of history and director of Public History Program at the Wichita State University.
Conard co-founded the PHR Associates in 1982, a historical research firm based in Santa Barbara, California.
Conard then co-founded Tallgrass Historians in Iowa City in 1993, she also was a principal of that organization. Currently, she maintains associate status with this firm.
As a consultant, she has specialized in historic preservation and cultural resource management services, which has given her countless opportunities to explore America's cultural and natural landscapes, from the bowels of deactivated Nike missile silos in the Angeles National Forest to meandering stonewalls in remote areas of Massachusetts.
Conard's major publications include Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism (1997), Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Legislative History, 1920-1996 (National Park Service, 1998), and Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History (2002).
She has contributed chapters to Proceedings of the Kansas History and History of the Great Plains Symposium (2001), Public History and the Environment (2004), The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (2006), and also published articles in The Public Historian, George Wright Forum, Environmental Review, The Annals of Iowa, Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science and Iowa Conservationist.
Conard has earned awards for her publications and for her contributions to public history from such organizations as the American Association for State and Local History, the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the California Council for the Promotion of History, and the California Preservation Foundation.
She received Award for Outstanding Historical Restoration from the California Preservation Foundation, in 1991. That same year she was awarded special commendation from the California Council for the Promotion of History.
Also, she earned a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1992. Conard won Throne-Aldrich Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa a year later.
(Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, dur...)
2001(Resource protection and public recreation policies have a...)
1997
Conard was a member of a board of directors.
National Council on Public History
1993 - 1996
She was a member of Preliminary Interpretation Planning Group.
Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve
1996
She was a technical adviser on historic resources.
Iowa State Preserves Advisory Board
1992
She was a member of a board of trustees and executive committee.
Old Cowtown Museum
1995
She was a member of a board of directors.
Kansas Museums Association
1993 - 1995
She was a president.
National Council on Public History
2002 - 2003
Conard married Steve Kettering, a banker.
