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NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging their engagement with the public. We are a membership association of consultants, museum professionals, government historians, professors & students, archivists, teachers, cultural resource managers, curators, film & media producers, historical interpreters, policy advisors, and many others. Members confer at the annual meeting each spring and share their expertise in our journal and newsletter, and in several online formats. *This site best viewed in Mozilla Firefox.*

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NEWS…

NCPH Joins Effort to Preserve K-12 History Ed Funding
On July 29, NCPH and 20 history and education organizations endorsed recommendations for how the federal government can better support core subjects beyond reading and math.

NEW! The Guide to Public History Programs is now online.

Exhibit, Sponsor an Event, or Advertise in the 2011 Annual Meeting Program
There are many ways to promote your organization at the 2011 conference.

History “Off the Wall”
Check out NCPH’s new exhibit review blog. Catch up with the expanding universe of history-related display.

June issue of Public History News

Promotion & Tenure Guidelines
NCPH, AHA, and OAH issued the report, “Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian.” See coverage and comments at Inside Higher Ed.

Best Practices in Teaching Public History
Pointers for faculty appear here.

Jobs
Free searching or posting to the public history job and internship page.

Be part of the Conversation
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2011
Annual Meeting

Crossing Borders/ Building Communities-
Real and Imagined
April 6-10, Pensacola, Florida

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The 2010 Book Award winner is Ronald Rudin’s Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey through Public Memory. Visit the companion website.

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NCPH is a leading member of the National Coalition for History, a nonprofit for history-related advocacy. Click here to subscribe to its weekly newsletter, The Washington Update, or get the RSS feed here.

 

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- Carl Becker, “Everyman His Own Historian”

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