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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
03 March 2025 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2025 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 presents four articles that demonstrate the diversity of public history scholarship today. Read More
28 February 2025 – 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
24 February 2025 – Alena Pirok
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in 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 August 2024 – Bailey Brown and Lindsey Waldenberg
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. Read More
18 April 2024 – Kristen Baldwin Deathridge and Sam Opsahl
The idea for the National Council on Public History began, in part, as a way to advocate for our field. In recent years the advocacy committee and NCPH leadership have responded to calls from the membership to expand the organization’s advocacy. Read More
17 May 2023 – Mary Culler 1
“After you graduate and get the letters M.A. after your name, finding a job should be no problem.”
These encouraging words were offered up to me at a recent museum conference, and although I appreciate the sentiment, the statement is not exactly true. Read More
10 April 2023 – Andy Urban and Alena Pirok
From Amazon and Starbucks unionization drives to the waves of strikes that have roiled higher education in recent months, American workers are thinking critically about labor and moving towards action. Museum and historical site professionals are no different. Projects like Art/Museums Salary Transparency 2019, and Instagram accounts like Museumworkersspeak, and Changethemuseum, have stimulated the conversation among art museum workers, but public historians have been comparatively silent. Read More
24 June 2021 – Sarah Marsom
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2021. Sarah Marsom won honorable mention in Excellence in Consulting for her projects Crafting Herstory and #DismantlePreservation. This is part one of a two-part Q&A about #DismantlePreservation. Read More