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30 August 2022 – Joan Zenzen
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Joan Zenzen is the winner of the Excellence in Consulting Individual Award for her work on Using Oral History to Affect Community Change: Action in Montgomery at its 20th Anniversary. Read More
23 March 2021 – John R. Legg
American Civil War, teaching, plantation, methods, community history, sense of place, National Park Service
Editor’s Note: How can students get valuable study abroad experience at home? John R. Legg, an Affiliate Editor with History@Work and PhD student at George Mason University, interviews Dr. Niels Eichhorn about a public history-oriented domestic study trip that introduced students to American Revolution, Civil War, and Civil Rights-era historical sites around the Southeast. Read More
16 March 2021 – Perri Meldon 1
For nearly four years, I have collaborated with the National Park Service to embrace the culture and history of people with disabilities represented by its 400+ parks, historic sites, monuments, and battlefields. During my summer 2020 internship with the NPS, I contributed to this effort by writing an annotated bibliography on American disability history. Read More
15 December 2020 – Nick Sacco 1
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is as good a time as ever for every museum and historic site to devise strategies to make public history more accessible. For public historians—as with many other industries related to travel and tourism—this year has been filled with chaos, uncertainty, prolonged furloughs, and unemployment. Read More
01 September 2020 – Jade Ryerson and Katherine Crawford-Lackey
In the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the techniques public historians use to engage communities have become increasingly digital, as have the methods we use to communicate with each other. Because COVID-19 continues to spread in the United States, public history organizations should consider how to offer enriching remote internship opportunities that are mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Read More
28 January 2020 – Megan Crutcher
National Park Service, LGBTQ history, intersectionality, advocacy, community history, memory, sense of place
Editor’s note: Following after two important NCPH publications related to LGBTQ history: the LGBTQ issue of The Public Historian (https://tph.ucpress.edu/
31 October 2019 – Nick Sacco 2
working group, 2019 annual meeting, methods, historiography, public engagement, sense of place, interpretation, National Park Service
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts reflecting on a working group that met at the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut.
In his 1957 book Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden attempted to provide one of the first working definitions of what it means to interpret history and nature to public audiences. Read More
19 September 2019 – Allison Horrocks 1
National Park Service, shared authority, public history, working group, 2019 annual meeting, historiography, cultural heritage, public programming, interpretation, authority
For the 2019 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, I had the pleasure of coordinating the Interpreting Our Heritage in the 21st Century working group with public historian Nick Sacco. Our goal was to take a fresh look at Freeman Tilden’s foundational text, Interpreting Our Heritage (1957), and to consider whether it required “repair work,” which was the annual meeting’s theme. Read More
30 May 2019 – Joan Zenzen
NCPH Board Member Posts, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, gun violence, hackathon, National Park Service, plenary
Editors’ Note: This post is one of two that will highlight reflections on events at the March 2019 National Council on Public History annual meeting.
I felt honored and humbled. Here I sat with a few hundred fellow public historians in a historic church listening to community members share their hopes about how a new national park might collaborate with their neighborhoods and help make a positive difference to life in Hartford, Connecticut. Read More
18 April 2019 – Josh Howard 2
practice, public engagement, 2019 annual meeting, collaboration, African American history, education, NCPH 2019 Awards, consultants, race, labor, National Park Service
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Josh Howard of Passel Historical Consulting received the individual “Excellence in Consulting” award. Read More