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18 January 2022 – Meghan Hillman
For the third year running, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is canceling its in-person conference offerings and going all-virtual. All of us have become accustomed to assessing personal and community risk during the pandemic, and an organization like NCPH must do this on a larger scale. Read More
23 February 2021 – Stasia Tanzer
Last year, in my role as the membership coordinator for National Council on Public History (NCPH), I had the pleasure of helping put on several virtual programs in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Soon after lockdown began and public history institutions started cutting hours and furloughing or laying off staff members, at NCPH we asked ourselves, in the spirit of rapid-response collecting, what could NCPH do for struggling public historians? Read More
02 July 2020 – Meghan Hillman and Stasia Tanzer
Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts about the National Council on Public History’s finances and plans for programming.
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is a membership and professional organization, and so we are only as strong as our members; we are only as healthy as the field of public history is. Read More
25 April 2019 – Aimee E. Newell 2
historical societies, suburbanization, oral history, programming, urban history, exhibitions, consumption, AASLH, small museums
Editor’s Note: Our digital media editor Nicole Belolan primarily grew up in rural Pennsylvania, about a 45-minute drive from Wilkes-Barre. As a child, she remembers going frequently to the Wilkes-Barre mall since shopping was limited in her smaller community. When she read about the programming and exhibition at the Luzerne County Historical Society about Wilkes-Barre’s history as a shopping destination, she wanted to learn more. Read More