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Long Range Plan: Advocacy
The idea for the National Council on Public History began, in part, as a way to advocate for our field. In recent years the advocacy committee and NCPH leadership have responded to calls from the membership to expand the organization’s advocacy. Examples of this include both taking actions, like changes to the jobs board, […] -
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Taking the plunge on Humanities Advocacy Day
An earlier Humanities Advocacy Day effort in Chicago, 2008. Image: Quinn Dombrowski Attending Humanities Advocacy Day this spring was a new experience for me. I have been a practicing public historian for almost 24 years working at museums and in the academy, but I had not been particularly active politically until recently. On […] -
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Building a national park through advocacy: the Blackwell School National Historic Site
[…] National Historic Site, serves as an example of how quickly gains made in this effort can be undone. Yet, the case also shows how direct and indirect advocacy can be a vital tool for protecting national historic sites after they are established. From 1909 until 1965, the Blackwell School served as a segregated school […] -
Advocacy is not a choice">
Advocacy is not a choice
[…] in Volume 44 Number 4 of Public History News, NCPH’s quarterly newsletter. It is cross-posted here in response to History@Work‘s current Special Call for posts on “ advocacy in the field.” During this past election year there was a predictable uptick in the number of opinion pieces regarding historians’ work as public intellectuals, particularly […] -
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Editor’s Corner: Authenticity and Advocacy
[…] entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Our August issue considers issues of authenticity, objectivity, and advocacy in public history. We begin with the Gregory Smoak’s NCPH Presidential Address, delivered virtually in May. Smoak argues that public historians must be advocates, particularly on […] -
What does it mean to advocate for public history?
Advocacy Committee Wordle Image credit: Adina Langer NCPH’s Advocacy Committee is charged with a dual mission: to respond to calls to take a stand on pressing issues of the day, and also to recommend proactive positions and actions to advance NCPH’s goals of advocating for public history and its practitioners. The first part […] -
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Hardball history: On the edge of politics, advocacy, and activism
[…] a structured conversation at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting next month, in a session called “Hardball History: Public Historians on the Edge of Politics, Advocacy, and Activism.” Between now and then, the participating panelists will kick things off with a series of blog posts that we hope will lead to some […] -
advocacy in historic preservation through my grandparents’ furniture">
Discovering activism and advocacy in historic preservation through my grandparents’ furniture
[…] the local community to be involved with the Smith Robertson Museum where she was the museum manager. When she said that, I figured out that activism and advocacy were the words that perfectly described the work that I wanted to do in the museum field, but I realized that I was already doing it. […] -
Advocating for archivists
[…] comments with staff to make them aware of the situation, and the staff in turn shared them with NCPH’s executive director, president, and chair of the NCPH Advocacy Committee, beginning internal conversations about how to respond. Meanwhile, over the weekend Dreger, the original author, issued an apology and requested that her original piece be […] -
Introduction to student interviews with public history and humanities workers
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. Sticker distributed by the “Empowering the Public History Workplace: Information, Advocacy, and Collective Power” […]