NCPH Working Groups List
Below is a list of all NCPH conference Working Groups over time. Clicking on the overview links for the year’s Working Groups will take you to a page where you can find more detailed information about each group and (in some cases) a link to participants’ case statements and pre-conference discussions.
2018 – LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- Insider/Outsider: Racial Bias and Positionality in Interpretation
- Disrupting Institutional Power: Imagining a Regional Model for Public History Education
- La Frontera: Public History on the Borderlands
- Negotiating Power Lines: Economic Justice and the Ethics of Public History
- Agriculture and Public History
- Crossing the Line: Facilitating Digital Access to Primary Sources
- Millennials as Change-Makers: The Power Lines between Generations in Public History Institutions
- The Public History of Labor
2017 – INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- The Economics and Ethics of Internships at the Center of Public History Education (Discussion)
- Moving Beyond the National: New Perspectives on International and Transnational Public Histories
- Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World
- Mediating the Early American Past for Today’s Public[s] (Discussion)
- Public History Education and Environmental Sustainability
- Let Them Hear It: Exploring Public History’s Role in Saving Radio Heritage
- Establishing History Communication as its Own Field of Study
- Sports on Campus: Sporting Traditions as Public History and Memory
2016 – BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (Joint with SHFG)
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- Making Public History Accessible: Exploring Best Practices for Disability Access (Discussion)
- Museums and Civic Discourse: Past, Present & Emerging Futures (Discussion)
- Standing up for History in the War on the Humanities
- Interpreting the History of Race Riots and Racialized Mass Violence in the Context of “Black Lives Matter”
- Campus History as Public History (Discussion)
- Public History and the Potential of Sports History Museums
- Building Capacity to Challenge the Exclusive Past (Discussion)
- Contemporary Collecting to Correct the Exclusive Past
2015 – NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- After the Administrative History: What Next?
- Public History as Digital History as Public History
- Free, Separate, Uncertain: Can Public History Play?
- History on the Edge of Nowhere
- On the Edge of 2016: Commemorating the Past and Shaping the Future of Federal Preservation Activities
- Pedagogy in Public: Academic Programs and Community Partners
- Religion, Historic Sites, and Museums
- Teaching Public History through International Collaborations
- Who speaks for us? Government Historians and the NCPH
2014 – MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- Beyond Saving: Achieving Sustainability in Historic Preservation
- Consulting Alliances: Obstacles and Opportunities
- Innovative Reuse in the Post-Industrial City
- GenNext: Are Public History Programs Sustainable?
- Public History in China
- Sustaining Digital Public History: Workflows for the Future
- Toward a History of Civic Engagement and the Progressive Impulse in Public History
2013 – OTTAWA, ONTARIO
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- The Challenge of Interpreting Climate Change at Historic Sites with a Conflicted Audience
- Exhibiting Local Enterprise: Developing Online Exhibits
- Teaching Public History
- Public Historians and the Local Food Movement
- Teaching Digital History and New Media
- Best Practices for Establishing a Public History Program
2012 – MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (JOINT WITH OAH)
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- A Fresh Look at Measures of Success in Public History Work
- Biography and Museums
- Civil War Sesquicentennial
- Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections
- How Much Is a Piece of the “True Road” Worth? Evaluating Historic Roadway and Preservation Values
- Imagined Places, Actual Spaces: Physical Manifestations of Romanticized Pasts
- Imagining New Careers in History
- Public History and Sustainability
- Public History Online: Using the Web to Collaborate and Share
- Reconstructing the New Deal: Towards a National Inventory of New Deal Art and Public Works
- What It’s Worth: Valuing and Pricing the Work of Historical Consultants
2011 – PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- The Choices We Make: Public Historians Role in the Commemorations of the Sesquicentennial of the American the Civil War
- Public History and Gentrification: A Contentious Relationship
- Using “Centers” to Teach Public History and Engage Community Partners
2010 – PORTLAND, OREGON (JOINT WITH ASEH)
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- Consultants Working Group
- Employment/Experience Opportunities for Recent Graduates and New Professionals
- Environmental Sites of Conscience: Exploring Issues to Inspire Visitor Action at Environmental History Sites
- How Do We Get There? Racial and Ethnic Diversity within the Public History Profession: Continuing the Discussion
- International Council on Public History? Bringing Global Public History Closer?
- Interns to the Rescue! Public History-University Partnerships in Financial Crisis
- Jump Start Your Digital Project in Public History: Planning Sessions
- Preparing the Professional Historian: Connecting Academic Training with the Changing Marketplace
2009 – PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
- Group overviews, facilitators, and questions
- Public History as Work
- How Do We Get There? Racial and Ethnic Diversity within the Public History Profession
- Bearing the Standard: Public Historians Role in the Commemorations of the Sesquicentennial of the American the Civil War
- Where is the History in Historic Districts?
- The Public Value of History
- Historical Truths and Reconciliation: Interpreting Indigenous Histories
- So You’re Teaching in a Public History Program: A Working Group
- Digital Experiments, Collaboration, and Interactivity
- Historical Truths and Reconciliation: The Interpretation of African American and Enslaved Peoples