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  • Making public history more queer

    […] themselves. It is time that public historians take initiative and start actively making their sites queer. The term queer does not apply only to sexual orientation and gender identity—anything that is against the norm can be considered queer. Cathy J. Cohen championed this definition of queer in her 1997 essay, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare […]

  • Highlights of History@Work in 2018

    […] comments, reveal an orientation toward news related to NCPH endeavors, including the recommendations of our Diversity and Inclusion Committee (NCPH Inclusion) and Mary Rizzo’s report on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history; the hiring of our new Digital Media editor, Nicole Belolan; and our first Twitter Mini-Con, (Re)Active Public History. Twitter users were also, understandably, […]

  • Documenting resilience and community healing in Orlando

    […] the importance of memory making and memorialization efforts for communities that have suffered public tragedies, and especially those who have suffered a long history of marginalization and discrimination. It is my hope that professional historical organizations and federal government agencies will help provide funding and resources to those in Orlando doing this work. One […]

  • Changing public history in Atlanta and beyond

    […] justice uprisings of 2020. Reading these case statements in 2022, I bear witness to the ways that public history paradigms have shifted in the areas of immigration, gender discrimination, sexual harassment,  and acknowledgment of white privilege. This sense of major changes underway is reflected as well in the words of 2020 award winners including GVGK […]

  • Seeking feedback on the NCPH Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

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    […] so many people who are dedicated to the work of NCPH. As part of this work, the committee worked with the Board of Directors’ new Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment to review the NCPH Events Code of Conduct (authored by a subcommittee of the Board of Directors in 2018) in order to strengthen […]

  • Finding their voices: the Williamsburg Bray School scholars’ legacy

    […] Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as a Lead Historic Interpreter. He received his MA in Public History at Liberty University and his research interests focus on race, religion, and gender in the United States prior to the Civil War. A wooden, white-washed house with a shingled roof on top and three windows sitting atop a trailer […]

  • National Council on Public History adopts statement of shared values

    […] needed two separate policies—a values statement and a separate code of professional conduct—governing documents that would work in tandem with the work of the Board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility. The shift from revising the existing code to creating a new values statement reflected […]

  • A response to the election

    […] including us. In recent decades, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, we have witnessed mass deportations, human rights violations at home and abroad, and persistent racial and gender inequality. What distinguishes the current moment is the extent to which the president-elect has relished demeaning not only opponents but also some of the most vulnerable […]