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Stasia Tanzer

New NCPH Grassroots Award to Support Non-Traditional Public Historians

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The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is excited to announce the creation of a new award: the NCPH Grassroots Public History Award. This award reflects NCPH’s commitment to acknowledging the many different kinds of work public historians do and the wide array of places we do it, particularly outside of large and predominately white institutions. Read More

Reflections on (relatively) rapid-response programming

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Last year, in my role as the membership coordinator for National Council on Public History (NCPH), I had the pleasure of helping put on several virtual programs in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Soon after lockdown began and public history institutions started cutting hours and furloughing or laying off staff members, at NCPH we asked ourselves, in the spirit of rapid-response collecting, what could NCPH do for struggling public historians? Read More

Request for Proposals: NCPH Seeks to Fund Virtual Projects and Programming

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Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts about the National Council on Public History’s finances and plans for programming.

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is a membership and professional organization, and so we are only as strong as our members; we are only as healthy as the field of public history is. Read More