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2024 Annual Meeting

Editor’s corner: collaboration and belonging

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Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the November 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.

This issue begins with a unique take on the National Council on Public History (NCPH) presidential address, presented at the March 2024 Annual Meeting (held jointly with the Utah Historical Society) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Read More

Editor’s Corner: Time, Space and Place

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Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.

The three articles in this issue all grapple with interpreting a particular place over multiple time periods, often in conversation with each other, and the insights that doing so can provide historians and the public. Read More

National Council on Public History adopts statement of shared values

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Author’s Note: This post was written in consultation with members of the NCPH Governance Committee. 

In April 2024, the Board of the National Council on Public History formally adopted a statement of shared values for the organization. This statement of Shared Values and Ethical Commitments of Public Historians articulates a set of values amongst members of the National Council on Public History. Read More

TBD to Historical Urgency: Reflections on Gathering as Public Historians

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In the Spring of 2023 public historians gathered—in person for the first time in four years—for our annual meeting in Atlanta. Months later, as I organized my photographs from the trip, I kept coming back to a series of images from the exhibit hall, images of a puzzle slowly coming together, one piece at a time. Read More