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  • Why NCPH will only post jobs with compensation information

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    […] American Association for State and Local History. Suzanne Fischer: Why posting salary ranges improves the search process As an NCPH Board member and chair of the NCPH Advocacy Committee, I’ve been proud of NCPH’s efforts to model more equitable practices for the field as they relate to hiring. See, for instance, our 2008 internship […]

  • Around the Field January 8, 2020

    […] field this week:The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for multiple grants; the Virginia Association of Museums is offering a workshop about disaster preparedness; Museum Advocacy Day will be February 24-25; and the Association of African American Museums is seeking proposals for their 2020 meeting. AWARDS and FUNDING The American Association for […]

  • What's your new "Situation Normal"?

    […] extreme budgetary constraints make professional travel, seasonal hiring, internships, contract work, new projects, and other activities difficult-to-impossible to arrange. Our conversation will go wide as well, highlighting advocacy efforts to rouse public and private support for history funding. I think it is important to note that we do not intend this structured conversation to […]

  • Excavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, part 2

    Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019. I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Although we knew about the contaminants and toxins that […]

  • Get your wind farm off my historic site: When visions of sustainability collide (Part 2)

    […] both and establish frameworks for how they might best be balanced in decision-making. This is a matter of public education but, more significantly, a matter of political advocacy.  Political leaders responsible for policy making need to recognize that heritage preservation does not need to be viewed only as an obstacle to energy development initiatives […]

  • Help us build a bibliography on public history and climate change

    […] many ways, yet there are also challenges to pursuing it–for example, the highly political nature of many environmental issues and historians’ caution about crossing the line into advocacy.  In the print realm, a single, now-decade-old collection, Public History and the Environment (co-edited by Melosi and Phil Scarpino and published by Krieger in 2004), has […]

  • Sound-bite history reconsidered

    […] only contributes to the noise and hyperbole that polarizes debates on energy.  Short, online films such as this can be a useful medium for combining history with advocacy.  But for those seeking practical, expert analysis of the problems, I would steer them instead to the videos featured in the Rational Middle Energy Series. The […]

  • Community-driven mitigation: Murals, canal stones, and a walking tour

    […] active participants instead of passive observers in Section 106 proceedings. Whether it is through litigation for more comprehensive identification efforts (e.g., more complete historic resources surveys) or advocacy for more meaningful mitigation efforts, the public face of historic preservation compliance has been changing in recent years. Schmitt and his partners in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny City […]

  • On NCPH 2020, H.B. 481, and not passing the mic

    […] centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which conferred on women the right to vote. There will be conversations at our 2020 conference about rights, given and taken away; advocacy for racial and social justice; and activism and community organizing with and within disenfranchised groups. We believe that the public historians of Georgia—a state that not […]

  • What is the "History Relevance Campaign"?

    […] Historical Administration (@SHA) last year. A small core of people then instigated an initial working group meeting of twelve people during  American Alliance of Museum (AAM) Museums Advocacy Day last February which brought together representatives from the Smithsonian, American Historical Association (AHA), NCPH, National History Day, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), […]