/news-archive/tag/national-museum-of-the-pacific-war/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:40:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/06/01/public-history-graduate-student-year/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:40:47 +0000 /news/?p=81637 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Alumnus Named AMA Public History Graduate Student of the Year]]> The award is granted to a graduate student in the area of museum, public history, archival management, or a related field who has shown academic excellence with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and has a minimum of 12 hours completed in the program. The successful nominee demonstrates initiative and leadership skills, has shown a willingness to collaborate with faculty, staff, and other graduate students, and is committed to working in the museum, public history, archival management, or related field. A native of Graham, Washington, Shuman joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 public history graduate program in January 2020, just one day after leaving service in the U.S. Air Force. He graduated at the end of the fall 2021 semester, after completing his thesis on the ways that presidential funerals reflect the lives and values of American presidents. He now works as the museum experience coordinator at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. The museum preserves and exhibits the material history of the war in the Pacific and Indo-China during World War II. 鈥淓arning this award was a really pleasant surprise,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淪ettling into my new job has shown all types of challenges to me, especially in converting theory to practice with historical interpretation. When my former supervisor asked if I wanted to come down, it was not only a chance to reflect on my successes in school and my internship, but also a wonderful chance to look at how far I鈥檝e come in establishing myself with a history career.鈥� Shuman completed two summer internships during 2020 and 2021 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. During his first internship, Shuman鈥檚 work was focused on completing a photographic inventory of the museum鈥檚 collection. After completing an audit of the existing state of the inventory, he photographed or scanned nearly 1,500 items and moved the files into the collection database. When he had completed this main project, Shuman worked to standardize the file naming protocols for the 24,000 items in the database in order to improve search capabilities. During his second internship, Shuman鈥檚 work focused on uploading nearly 5,000 World War II photographs from the museum鈥檚 Allison Collection to a digital web exhibit. These photographs, accompanied by their original captions, are now stored where the public can easily access them for viewing and research. 鈥淎aron鈥檚 two internships provided experience in collections management, exhibit development and installation, as well as educational programming, which has already served him well in his work at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas,鈥� said Stephan McAteer, executive director of the MacArthur Museum. 鈥淎aron鈥檚 work at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History was stellar. His attention to detail and cooperative spirit made him a valuable addition. He was an outstanding intern and worked well with both staff and museum visitors.鈥� Beyond his main project, Shuman augmented full-time museum staff at numerous education outreach events with local schools as part of the City of Little Rock鈥檚 Summer Playground Program and took over front desk duties when staff was called away for off-location events. In the exhibit space, he removed and stowed an exhibit before providing assistance in the installation of 鈥淯ndaunted Courage,鈥� an exhibit examining the contributions of Japanese Americans in WWII. 鈥淲hat I learned there has been invaluable to me in my new job,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淚t instilled in me a confidence that I could perform at this level in this field.鈥漖]> /news-archive/2021/12/01/aaron-shuman-pacific-war-museum/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:25:26 +0000 /news/?p=79719 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Student is Coordinating Living History Program at National Museum of the Pacific War]]> Aaron Shuman, a native of Graham, Washington, recently moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, to start his new job as the museum experience coordinator at the museum, which preserves and exhibits the material history of the war in the Pacific and Indo-China during World War II. 鈥淭he public history program worked out really well for me,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淚 have a graduate assistantship at the Clinton Presidential Library, and my supervisor introduced me to my summer internship at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. The skills I picked up at both of those locations were critical to getting this job.鈥� The National Museum of the Pacific War鈥檚 Living History programs, housed in the Pacific Combat Zone, includes 鈥淧ride of the Pacific,鈥� a live battlefield program, and 鈥淭he Outposts,鈥� an in-depth presentation featuring staff and volunteers in World War II uniforms or period clothing use artifacts and items from the museum鈥檚 collection. 鈥淧ride of the Pacific鈥� is a live-action performance featuring landing crafts, explosives, and flamethrowers as members of the museum’s own Company K. 鈥淭he Outposts鈥� includes discussions on weapons of war, Navy fighter planes, and communications during World War II. 鈥淥ne of the museum鈥檚 buildings is the birthplace of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, who led U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淭he museum is a Smithsonian affiliate, and it鈥檚 comparable in size to the Clinton Presidential Library. The Pacific Combat Zone is very unique, and a lot of facilities don鈥檛 have a separate building for living history programs. You see tanks driving around and programs that use real flamethrowers. It鈥檚 not every day that you see these things that are 75+ years old and being used the way they were originally meant to be.鈥� Shuman鈥檚 new position is giving him a real living history experience. Not only does he get to use machines and weaponry from World War II, he has been temporarily lodged at the Ruff Haus, a building that has over 100 years of history and was built by the town鈥檚 original German settlers. An Air Force veteran, Shuman started in 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 public history graduate program in January 2020, just one day after leaving military service. 鈥淚 was in the Air Force, and I realized that I didn鈥檛 want to be an aircraft mechanic forever,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淎s a kid, I played war board games with my dad and got very interested in the Second World War. I was stationed at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa and then I went to Little Rock Air Force Base. I looked for a public history program in Arkansas, and low and behold this very rare public history program was down the street.鈥� Shuman will graduate in December and is writing his thesis on the ways that presidential funerals reflect the lives and values of American Presidents. As he nears the completion of his master鈥檚 degree, Shuman is still surprised by how much his life has changed since joining 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淭wo years ago, I was changing tires on a C-1301, and now I鈥檓 running a public history program at a national museum in Texas,鈥� Shuman said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 crazy how fast things have changed. If 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 program didn鈥檛 have all these work opportunities to fill my resume, I don鈥檛 think this opportunity would have happened. I went from a mechanic to an academic in less than two years. I didn鈥檛 expect to get it done this quickly.鈥漖]>