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    Long Range Plan: Advocacy

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    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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    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 […]
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    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]