NCPH News May 31, 2013 – Leadership in public history

31 May 2013 – editors

Leadership in Public History.  Send your recommendations for NCPH president, board, and nominating committee positions.

Majestic Monterey: history, culture, and scenic wonders…  The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides this look at the city that will host the NCPH’s 2014 Annual Meeting.

2014 Call for Proposals.  The theme for the NCPH Monterey conference next March is “Sustainable Public History.”  Session ideas and other proposal information can be found here.

Actions of the NCPH Board.  In the months leading up to the conference and then during its spring meeting, the NCPH Board of Directors addressed the following matters.

After the Cuts: The Future of History in Canada.  Here is a podcast of the session that the Canadian Historical Association organized as part of NCPH’s Ottawa meeting last month.

Sequester Slashed $110 Million From National Park Service.

Back to Basics.  Summer is a time to think about the historical commonalities of life that unite and divide us—the refined and the crude, sacred and the profane—and how they got that way. “The Modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from,” on Salon.com.

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