Public History Book Club

2024 Season

Based on successful discussions at the 2021 Virtual Meeting and past book club discussions, the NCPH Professional Development Committee is excited to bring back the Public History Book Club. Participating in the book club is free, open to everyone, and you don’t have to sign up to join us for every read. The 2024 season is now concluded, stay tuned for news about what’s in store for 2025!

Previous Reads

July 8, 2021 – Mary Rizzo’s Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and the Wire (John Hopkins University Press, 2020)
August 12, 2021 – Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
September 9, 2021 – Tiya Miles’ All That She Carried (Penguin Random House, 2021)
June 8, 2022 – ed. Denise Meringolo’s Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism (Amherst College Press, 2021)
August 4, 2022 – Dennis B. Downey’s and James W. Conroy’s Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights (Penn State University Press, 2020)
March 7, 2024 – David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon
September 19, 2024Liz Ševcenko’s Public History for a Post-Truth Era, and Francesca Morgan’s A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History