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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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Critical reviews of history exhibit practice in an age of ubiquitous display

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

Image courtesy of Pensacola Bay Area CVB.

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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.

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.

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