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18 February 2019 – Rebecca Conard 1
Editors’ Note: This In Memoriam also appears in the current NCPH Newsletter and The Public Historian, Vol. 41, No. 1.
G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., founding editor of The Public Historian and a founding member of the National Council on Public History, died November 16, 2018. Read More
13 December 2018 – Krista McCracken and Christine Crosby
NCPH held its first-ever Twitter Mini-Con(ference) on Thursday-Friday, October 18-19, 2018. The event was organized by historians Jessica Knapp and Krista McCracken, in collaboration with NCPH staff Christine Crosby and Meghan Hillman, and was modeled after the Beyond 150 Twitter Conference, which Krista organized with Andrea Eidinger (see this post for more details).
06 December 2018 – Seth Bruggeman and Cathy Stanton 1
Ideally, a conference theme is broad enough to encompass the breadth of a field, yet specific enough to create cohesion and perhaps spark new synergies and connections within that field. Seth Bruggeman and Cathy Stanton, Program Committee co-chairs for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, reflect on how this year’s theme of “Repair Work” was developed and how it has shaped the program. Read More
10 September 2018 – Nicole Belolan
digital history, accessibility, collaboration, education, employment, NCPH, Ask a Practitioner, methods
Editors’ Note: We are excited to introduce Nicole Belolan, the newest member of the NCPH, TPH, History@Work, and MARCH team to our readers. Please enjoy the opportunity to learn more about her through this interview conducted by the NCPH staff. Read More
29 August 2018 – Meghan Hillman
This spring at the 2018 NCPH Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NCPH’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force (NCPH Inclusion) held an on-the-fly session about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the public history profession. You can read more about that session in Mary Rizzo’s recent post and a June 2018 Public History News piece. Read More
23 August 2018 – Krista McCracken
advocacy, methods, digital history, NCPH, conference, professional opportunities, NCPH Board Member Posts, digital media
As you may have noticed in Public History News, NCPH is excited to announce that our first ever NCPH Twitter Mini-Con will be taking place October 18-19, 2018. The theme for the conference is (Re)Active Public History, and is rooted in a desire to critically discuss the active ways that public historians engage with the public, the past, and historical scholarship. Read More
16 August 2018 – Marla Miller, Christine Crosby, and Stephanie Rowe
On July 29, 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece by Alice Dreger entitled “The Delicate Art of Dealing with Your Archivist” (originally behind a paywall, the article is now publicly accessible). In the article, Dreger, a historian of science and medicine, breaks down the types of archivists a researcher may encounter by a “basic taxonomy.” Read More
14 August 2018 – Mary Rizzo
I was a nineteen-year-old intern at a nonprofit organization working on educational programs. My direct supervisor was a man in his 30s. We shared an office, which meant it was hard to avoid his flirtatious comments, like when he asked me to “try out some mattresses with him.” Read More
31 July 2018 – Cathy Gudis
community history, sense of place, environment, NCPH, performance, heritage tourism, NCPH Board Member Posts, projects, advocacy
Editor’s note: This post continues a series featuring contributions from members of the NCPH Board of Directors.
Lately I’ve been performing my public history. Several times this spring I’ve donned a business suit and silk blouse, straightened my blonde(ish) hair, and adopted the cheerful demeanor of a corporate publicist. Read More
24 July 2018 – Dan Ott, Rachel Boyle and Stella Ress
2018 annual meeting, NCPH, working group, new professionals, Capitalism, advocacy, conference, social justice, ethics, entrepreneurialism, collaboration, economics, sustainability, profession, consultants, employment, funding
“So, how do we solve the problems of capitalism?” Read More