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  • Around the Field November 27, 2018

    From around the field this week: register for Museums Advocacy Day in February and Humanities Advocacy Day in March; send in proposals for ALFHAM’s 2019 Conference in Ontario; tune in for AASLH’s and OAH’s December webinar on Native American activism. ANNOUNCEMENTS The American Alliance of Museums is hosting Museums Advocacy Day in Washington, DC this […]

  • Give public historians bread and roses

    Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “# Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Utilizing a rally cry of labor activists from the past, public […]

  • Navigating the Complexities of Public History in a Changing Legislative Landscape

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    […] Matter movement and the 2020 uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd. These laws follow in a tradition of white supremacist crackdowns on Black and progressive advocacy in the South, as David Blight and Karen Cox show, with the creation of the Lost Cause narrative and erection of Jim Crow statues to Confederates […]

  • Hardball history: Choosing sides

    […] particular El Paso buildings were the first iteration of the Museo Urbano project. Photo credit: Bruce Berman Hardball history that places historians at the center of politics, advocacy, and activism can be a difficult journey, but it can also be inspiring. My introduction to public history coincided with the 2006 unveiling of a controversial […]

  • Centering Indigenous voices at the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum

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    […] their families had urged the state of Nevada to commemorate alumni experiences as a means of recognizing their trauma and need for healing. After decades of Indigenous advocacy, the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum addresses these concerns and shares the history of the school through the voices and perspectives of boarding school […]

  • Eighth monthly Consultants' Corner TweetChat

    […] June 3rd, will bring you our eighth monthly Consultants’ Corner Tweetchat. The chat will be held at 4:00 p.m. EST and the topic will be “consulting and advocacy.” We will discuss the roles consultants should or shouldn’t play as advocates for historic preservation, public access, multiple points of view and other key issues we […]

  • Imagining a Future for Public History

    […] leader, or funding cut, from within the confines of our specific targeted communities. With each new outrage, I have been grateful to NCPH leadership for quickly-mustered “ advocacy alerts” and “call-to-action” briefings. But in the quiet moments between calls to senators and petition signings, I have longed for something beyond the reactiveness of the […]

  • Keeping public history accessible: the NCPH Labor Task Force

    […] post is the first in a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “# Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag.  Public historians have the coolest jobs. We get […]

  • Immigration and Public History in the Second Trump Era

    […] violence directed toward immigrants or any other vulnerable population. Humanizing immigrants’ experiences and sharing their narratives with broad audiences continues to be essential. At the same time, advocacy around policy and human rights cannot be ignored. Promoting education and dialogue will likely not be enough to ensure that human rights are respected. Public history […]

  • Project Showcase: Ironbound Environmental Justice History and Resource Center

    […] to 2001,  an oversize “scrapbook” was created.  This scrapbook acts as a “finding tool” for the archive, sorting some of the major topics of Ironbound’s environmental justice advocacy work over an approximately thirty-year period. The scrapbook index is then keyed to two file drawers which have additional documents (copies, not originals) for those who […]