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23 October 2023 – Paige Figanbaum
The tourist perception of Las Vegas is often limited to its iconic neon lights, or recently, the Knights hockey team winning the Stanley Cup championship. While The Strip has played a significant role in shaping the city, it tends to overshadow Las Vegas’ rich history and community. Read More
11 January 2022 – Donna Graves
Editor’s note: Today we share our next installment for the “Our Climate Emergency” series. Donna Graves, one of the editors of this series, investigates her role as a public historian and explores the visual nature of the climate crisis. Read More
07 December 2021 – Braden Paynter
Editor’s note: This is our third installment of the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series.
Historic sites have a critical role to play in advancing environmental and climate justice, using history and place to unlock the root causes of both harm and the ongoing resistance to addressing that harm. Read More
14 September 2021 – David Glassberg and Donna Graves
social justice, climate emergency series, sense of place, collaboration, environment, sustainability, climate change, covid-19, preservation
Editor’s note: This post begins our year-long series, Our Climate Emergency, co-edited with David Glassberg and Donna Graves. The goal of this series brings together a diverse cohort of public historians, all with different perspectives and backgrounds, to think about the role of public historians and the climate crisis. Read More
12 March 2020 – Priya Chhaya and William Stoutamire
Editors’ Note: This post is part of a series that illustrates the role of the NCPH Endowment in supporting the work of the organization. As we all know, next week the NCPH was to gather in Atlanta for our annual meeting. Read More
10 March 2020 – Philip Levy, Carolyn Barske Crawford and Alena Pirok
Editors’ Note: This is the second of two posts by leaders of the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability. You can get involved by attending the Green Meetings Working Group session on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More
06 March 2020 – William Stoutamire
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
28 February 2020 – Abigail Gautreau
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series that illustrates the role of the NCPH Endowment in supporting and growing the field. To find out more about how the NCPH Endowment Fund supports the work of public historians and to make your pledge to the 2020 Vision campaign, please visit: https://ncph.org/giving/endowment/ Read More
27 February 2020 – Philip Levy, Alena Pirok and Carolyn Barske Crawford
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts by leaders of the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability. You can get involved by attending the Green Meetings Working Group Session on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More
09 January 2020 – Dillon Maxwell 8
In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote, “There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe.” The saw works across years to pull out “little chips of facts”; the wedge splits wood into collective views; the axe lops limbs for the “peripheral rings of the recent past.” Read More