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• Practicing public history through halls of fame

  Kimberly Voss

  After decades of being overlooked, Marie Anderson was inducted into the Florida Journalism Hall of Fame at the end of July. For more than two decades, Anderson was one of the most powerful women in Miami. During the 1950s and 1960s, as a significant club woman and the women’s page editor of the Miami Herald, […]

• Launching the NCPH and AASLH survey on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history

  Mary Rizzo

  The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) have launched an online survey about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history. This effort is the culmination of more than a year of work by members of NCPH’s Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, […]

• GTMO in MSP

  Evan Taparata

  Editor’s Note: This piece continues a series of posts related to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration of public history programs across the country to raise awareness of the long history of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) and foster dialogue on its future.  For an introduction to the series, please see this piece by the Project’s director, Liz Ševčenko.  Before […]

• "Sustainable public history" means action in Monterey

  Cody Ferguson

  After an incredibly engaging and well-attended American Society for Environmental History conference in San Francisco last week, I arrived in Monterey excited to extend the conversation about the connections among environmental history, sustainability, and public history. I did not expect, however, that the term “sustainability” could rouse the activist roots of our profession.  “What to […]

• We need to talk about public history’s columbusing problem

  GVGK Tang

  Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. GVGK Tang was awarded the Historical Research Associates (HRA) New Professional Travel Award. This piece builds on an article that appeared in the June […]

• Around the Field June 10, 2020

  NCPH Office

  […] “Lessons from the Field” begins; The Society of Ohio Archivists’ annual conference kicks off; the International Coalitions of Sites of Conscience hosts a webinar on “Activism and Advocacy during the COVID pandemic.” ANNOUNCEMENTS Connecticut Landmarks is hosting a Virtual Juneteenth Celebration on June 13, 2020 Villanova University’s Lepage Center is hosting virtual lunches on […]

• A good-enough platform for change

  Cathy Stanton

  In a television interview last year, American writer and neo-agrarian icon Wendell Berry spoke about the “dreadful situation” facing young people who are grappling with the cascading environmental, economic, and social challenges linked with runaway capitalism and anthropogenic climate change.  Berry noted that the recognition of our big problems creates an expectation of equally big […]

• Calling on Public Historians: Challenging White Public History Working Group

  Lara Kelland and Abigail Gautreau

  Editors’ Note: This working group session did not take place in Atlanta as described below, but the National Council on Public History working group Challenging White Public History is still active and working on deliverables. They plan to report back soon on their ongoing virtual activities.

• A Greener Conference in the Peach State

  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. The first post in this series can be found […]

• Reflections on Stonewall: Fifty years after the “Stonewall Riots,” not much has changed about how we commemorate LGBTQ+ history

  Megan Crutcher

  Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/content/41/2) as well as our ePub: https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LGBTQePubOct212019FINAL.pdf, we are pleased to continue to publish more related perspectives here in History@Work. On a rainy Sunday in New York City, I was looking forward to visiting some sites on my […]