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  • The conundrum of capitalism and public history: a view from the NCPH Working Group on Economic Justice and the Ethics of Public History (2018)

    “So, how do we solve the problems of capitalism?”

  • The meeting of two Marxists on the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup

    I do not know how many of the learned people who follow this forum know that 40 years ago today the United States government—and to point political fingers at political figures: President Richard Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and CIA Director Richard Helms—actively and illegally supported a bloody military coup that overthrew the democratically […]

  • History on a shoestring at Nido 20: A memory site in its infancy

    In Chile between 1973 and 1990, according to the 2004 National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (The Valech Report), 1,132 sites were utilized as centers of detention, torture, and extermination.  They ranged from hospitals and soccer stadiums to police precincts and private houses.  More than 250 operated in Santiago alone during Pinochet’s seventeen-year dictatorship.  […]

  • A new way to be with one another

    Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of pieces by recipients of NCPH’s 2018 best in public history awards. From this year’s annual conference, one thing seems clear: as public historians, we want our work to make a difference. Not just on a personal level, but on a community, and even national, level. This was […]

  • Study the humanities: Help us make the case

    Editor’s note: This piece from the National Humanities Alliance is being circulated in a variety of relevant venues. Think pieces abound on how best to make the case for the value of studying the humanities—should we as a humanities community emphasize the quite respectable career and salary outcomes of humanities majors or do we then […]

  • The NCPH sustainability survey: An invitation

    Over the past decade a growing number of public historians have responded to debates about climate change and the need for sustainable communities by making sustainability a central focus of their professional work. These efforts were initially informal, but as Leah Glaser described in a post earlier this year, in recent years there has been […]

  • Documenting gentrification: A video rough cut


    In 1975 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development designated a one-square-mile part of Decatur, Georgia an Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program neighborhood. The designation meant that the city’s housing authority could sell distressed properties in its inventory to qualified buyers for one dollar. The 113 homes sold between 1975 and 1982 initiated successive waves […]

  • Around the Field February 21, 2018

    […] “Nightmare at the Museum” week, featuring webinars and a Twitter chat, and submit nominations for their Leadership in History awards by March 1; take part in Museums Advocacy Day February 26-27; the Museum of the City of New York is hosting “Epic Histories with Mike Wallace and Nell Irvin Painter” on February 27; applications […]

  • Memorial Paine’s everyday lives: Local stories with universal lessons

    Raúl Lazo liked to ride horses.  Luis Gaete worked with his hands in the fields.  Juan Leiva believed rural education was a right.  José Castro had a red tractor.  Juan Leonardo, president of the Association of the Relatives of the Disappeared and Executed Detainees of Paine (AFDD-Paine), explained on a sunny countryside morning that this […]

  • History Relevance in Canada

    Recently I ended a trip to Canada a bit jealous that Canadians have figured out how to give history a national spotlight, something that has proven more elusive in the United States. While we do find ways to award excellence in history, they are not concentrated and diverse and on such a national stage.