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Next steps in the fight to #SavetheNEH
[…] has resulted in nearly 150,000 messages and phone calls to Members of Congress and President Trump. A record-breaking number of humanities advocates joined us in Washington D.C. for Humanities Advocacy Day in March, visiting their congressional offices and making the case for robust funding for the NEH and other humanities programs. Advocates have published op-eds highlighting […] -
Climbing the hill: access and opportunity at the Met Cloisters with Dr. Julia Perratore
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.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. You can read each post as it […] -
“Collaboration is the heart of It”: The value of community-building in the Washington Prison History Project
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.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. You can read each post as it […] -
Quechua throughout the globe: a conversation with Américo Mendoza-Mori
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.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. You can read each post as it […] -
Labors of love and organizing for solidarity within, across, and beyond the cultural industries
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. Working conditions in the cultural sector are rapidly deteriorating—and workers are joining […] -
Feeling at Home in a Newport Mansion
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.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. You can read each post […] -
Meeting the moment in tiers (not tears): a resistance guide for public history educators
[…] at the recent NCPH Educator’s Forum in Montréal, Canada, transformed their annual breakfast into an urgent call to action. What emerged was a tiered framework for professional advocacy which acknowledges the varying capacities, circumstances, and risk tolerances of history educators facing this pivotal American political moment. Our tiered approach recognizes two fundamental truths—first, not […] -
How Denver Art Museum workers shape the future of cultural labor
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. Denver Art Museum (DAM), October 10, 2015. Photo credit: Jan […] -
Employer labor best practices and resources
[…] 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. Public history employers face critical labor decisions to […] -
Introducing History Communicators
[…] Is History Communicators simply an attempt to put a new, more intentional spin on the kind of work that public historians already do? Is it merely an advocacy campaign–and how does is it differ from advocacy work done by NCPH, AHA, the Society of American Archivists, and others? What actual positions can public historians […]