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07 May 2020 – Lara Kelland and Abigail Gautreau
Editors’ Note: This working group session did not take place in Atlanta as described below, but the National Council on Public History working group Challenging White Public History is still active and working on deliverables. They plan to report back soon on their ongoing virtual activities. Read More
10 March 2020 – Philip Levy, Carolyn Barske Crawford and Alena Pirok
Editors’ Note: This is the second of two posts by leaders of the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability. You can get involved by attending the Green Meetings Working Group session on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More
27 February 2020 – Philip Levy, Alena Pirok and Carolyn Barske Crawford
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts by leaders of the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability. You can get involved by attending the Green Meetings Working Group Session on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
advocacy, community history, memory, sense of place, National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi
advocacy, methods, social justice, public engagement, memory, sense of place, interpretation, Native American, Indigenous People, environmental history, food
Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.
I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More
08 November 2019 – Chel Rose Miller 1
advocacy, profession, employment, conference, gender/sexuality, ethics, 2019 annual meeting, #MeToo, bystanders
The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, including in scholarly and professional communities. The last two years have shown us that the public history community is no exception. Read More
11 July 2019 – Katherine Crawford-Lackey
digital media, advocacy, collaboration, government, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, LGBTQ history, TPH 41.2
Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. Read More
04 July 2019 – David Rotenstein 1
advocacy, art, community history, collaboration, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, Immigration
Jack Schmitt has mixed feelings about the way that the Pennsylvania Route 28 project turned out. On one hand, the longtime Pittsburgh historic preservation advocate beams when he talks about how he successfully convinced the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to replicate historic Pennsylvania Canal lock stones in a retaining wall in the urban highway corridor. Read More
20 May 2019 – Ashley Bouknight, Meghan Hillman, Brian Joyner and Marla Miller
On May 7, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed H.B. 481, the “Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act,” into law in the state (to take effect January 1, 2020). The law, one of several state “heartbeat bills” passed recently, would effectively prohibit women in Georgia from accessing their right to a safe and lawful abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, at about six weeks of pregnancy. Read More
26 March 2019 – Suzanne Fischer 1
NCPH’s Advocacy Committee is charged with a dual mission: to respond to calls to take a stand on pressing issues of the day, and also to recommend proactive positions and actions to advance NCPH’s goals of advocating for public history and its practitioners. Read More