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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.

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NEWS…

The NCPH Office is packed up and headed to Portland.

Working Group discussions in Portland are open to all conference attendees. See the case statements/background material here.

Washington Post article quotes The Public Historian

Pre-registration for the annual meeting is now closed. Conference registration and limited event tickets will be available onsite.

2010 Conference Blog
Keep up with the latest conference news.

2010 Program is Online
Print copies available only onsite in Portland.

Annual Conference FAQs
Have questions? The Graduate Student Committee has answers.

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

What’s Going on in Public History…
the current newsletter is
here

Be part of the Conversation
on H-Public and Facebook, and join the NCPH group on LinkedIn.

Conference Where in 2013-15?
NCPH is seeking site proposals for upcoming annual meetings.

2010 Annual Meeting, Currents of Change
March 10-14 Portland, Oregon

Postcard courtesy of Tacoma Public Library.

Our 30th Anniversary Year
The Opening Reception and other events at the Portland annual meeting will be dedicated to NCPH’s 30th birthday.

The 2009 Book Award winner is Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh’s Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History. See the author discuss his book on C-SPAN television here.

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

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

The Public Historian is the leading journal in the field of public history.

Discussion Networks
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Facebook and LinkedIn, and
see the NCPH channel on YouTube.

Public History News provides members of NCPH with updates on activities and developments in the field.

“Given the essential value of historical understanding, the NCPH promotes professionalism among history practitioners and their engagement with the public.”

- NCPH Mission Statement-

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