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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…

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.  <more>

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

New Head of NPS Cultural Resources
Stephanie Toothman has been named a new Associate Director at the National Park Service.

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.

History for Dollars — Uncloistered
New York Times columnist David Brooks defends history and the humanities.

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

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

NCPH Keynoter on C-SPAN
Adam Hochschild’s Public Plenary address aired on C-SPAN and streams online here.

Washington Post article quotes The Public Historian


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2011 Annual Meeting
Crossing Borders/Building Communities-
Real and Imagined
April 6-10, Pensacola, Florida

Image courtesy of Pensacola Bay Area CVB.

 


 

 

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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“The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.”
- Carl Becker, “Everyman His Own Historian”

 

 

 


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