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08 September 2020 – Daniel Vivian
Editors’ Note: This is the first of five posts summarizing the findings of the Joint Task Force on Public History Education and Employment, an initiative launched in 2014 to study trends in public history education and employment.
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect public history employment? Read More
08 November 2019 – Chel Rose Miller 1
#MeToo, advocacy, bystanders, profession, employment, conference, gender/sexuality, ethics, 2019 annual meeting
The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, including in scholarly and professional communities. The last two years have shown us that the public history community is no exception. Read More
29 August 2019 – Sharon Leon
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series that illustrates the role of the NCPH Endowment in supporting the work of the organization. To find out more about how the NCPH Endowment Fund supports the work of public historians and to make your gift, please visit: https://ncph.org/giving/endowment/ Read More
27 August 2019 – Tracy Huddleson 4
There’s a saying I’m fond of for its nudge to face life with boldness: “Leap, and the net will appear.” It’s an especially relevant credo for those thinking about graduate school and a second career at an older age.
Second-career concerns were not top of mind for me until recently. Read More
20 February 2019 – Paul C. Thistle
The “Repair Work” theme of the 2019 NCPH Hartford, CT conference immediately makes me think about the need to repair prevailing working conditions in the public history field itself. I strongly believe this work must become part and parcel of the notion among public historians about the need for “repairing a broken world.” Read More
04 December 2018 – Jackie Swihart, Garrett Receveur, Sam Opsahl and Stasia Tanzer
When we were approached by NCPH to work with the Mellon-funded “OAH Amplified Initiative,” we were excited to put skills learned from our graduate classes into practice and further NCPH’s mission to build community and expand historians’ professional toolkit. Read More
10 September 2018 – Nicole Belolan
education, employment, NCPH, Ask a Practitioner, methods, digital history, accessibility, collaboration
Editors’ Note: We are excited to introduce Nicole Belolan, the newest member of the NCPH, TPH, History@Work, and MARCH team to our readers. Please enjoy the opportunity to learn more about her through this interview conducted by the NCPH staff. Read More
31 August 2018 – Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowka
Author’s Note: Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the Public History Summer School, held in Wroclaw, Poland. The Summer School, which was co-sponsored with the University of Wrocław’s Historical Institute, the local Zajezdnia History Centre, the Jean Monnet Network for Applied Contemporary European History, and the International Federation for Public History (IFPH), ran for four days, and included presentations from scholars all over Europe and beyond. Read More
14 August 2018 – Mary Rizzo
I was a nineteen-year-old intern at a nonprofit organization working on educational programs. My direct supervisor was a man in his 30s. We shared an office, which meant it was hard to avoid his flirtatious comments, like when he asked me to “try out some mattresses with him.” Read More
24 July 2018 – Dan Ott, Rachel Boyle and Stella Ress
2018 annual meeting, NCPH, working group, new professionals, Capitalism, advocacy, conference, social justice, ethics, entrepreneurialism, collaboration, economics, sustainability, profession, consultants, employment, funding
“So, how do we solve the problems of capitalism?” Read More