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29 October 2025 – Madison Haine 1
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. Read More
28 October 2025 – Paul Montjoy Forti
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. Read More
23 October 2025 – Ánh Adams 1
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. Read More
25 September 2025 – Isla Stewart
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. Read More
22 September 2025 – Adina Langer
Like so many members of our professional community, I have been buffeted by the steady stream of blows to the field these past several months––blows that I can’t help but take personally. The financial and ideological foundations of what I’ve come to understand as public history in the twenty-first century have been under attack from an administration that made culture war escalation a hallmark of its first 100 days. Read More
08 September 2025 – Andy Urban
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
17 July 2025 – Amanda Tobin Ripley, Lee Bishop, Haley Bryant, Greig de Peuter, Steff Hui Ci Ling, Salma Geneidy, Carolyn Jong and Bonnie McDonald
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
27 June 2025 – Public History Breakfast Club
As federal cuts have threatened or fully hollowed the NPS, NEH, IMLS, the National Digital Newspaper Program, and the Smithsonian, history is undergoing systemic white-washing and straight-washing around the country. In response, some public historians at the recent NCPH Educator’s Forum in Montréal, Canada, transformed their annual breakfast into an urgent call to action. Read More
12 June 2025 – Sarah Marsom
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
08 May 2025 – John Fulton
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More