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Disability in Place Pre-Launch Event

08 July 2025 –

For the last four years, NCPH has worked with the National Park Service (NPS) to foster the creation of an introduction to place-based disability history. The forthcoming Disability in Place, comprised of 26 essays by 31 authors, will be the first accessibly-written anthology of original, peer-reviewed essays to address historical intersections of disability and place. Read More

Public History Book Club is Back!

25 June 2025 –

NCPH’s Professional Development Committee is bringing back the Public History Book Club! There will be two reads this summer: on Thursday, July 24, at 6 pm ET, we’ll meet to discuss Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser. Read More

Decompress with the IDEA Committee

17 June 2025 –

Come join NCPH’s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) Committee on July 17, 2025, at 7:00 pm Eastern time for a virtual night of community and support. Together we will think through ways to look to the past as inspiration for a better future. Read More

NCPH Call to Action

05 June 2025 –

Thank you for your continued advocacy during this challenging time, whether you’re sharing resources, materially supporting fellow public historians, or remaining steadfast in your commitment to inclusive, ethical public history. We acknowledge that contacting US congressional representatives is just one part of our collective advocacy work, and offer the following suggestions to support the continued fight to protect crucial federal funding for public history. Read More

Considering the Revolution

21 May 2025 –

On Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern, join series editor and facilitator, M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, as we bring the 5-year “Considering the Revolution” conversation series from scholarship to application. Ista Clarke, Kristen Hayashi, and Nicole Moore, speakers from the 2023 and 2024 roundtables, will reflect on years of preparation for commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and its lasting legacies, and will look forward to the future and the roles of public history in the present moment. Read More

Join the NCPH team!

15 May 2025 –

NCPH is looking for a full-time (forty hours a week) Membership Coordinator! The Membership Coordinator builds and maintains our organization’s growing number of individual and institutional members, develops programs related to marketing, membership, fundraising, conferences, and awards, and works closely with volunteers from across the world on committees and with the program manager and executive director to strengthen NCPH as a professional and scholarly association. Read More

NCPH is hiring!

02 May 2025 –

NCPH is hiring a part-time (twenty hours a week) contract Publications and Marketing Coordinator! This fully-remote position pays $22/hr with no benefits, but with potential for hiring full-time with benefits following the contract.

The Contract Publications and Marketing Coordinator for NCPH supports NCPH’s print and digital publications (primarily the quarterly newsletter and blog) and works closely with volunteers to promote public history and to strengthen NCPH as an association. Read More

Announcing the Membership Support Fund

30 April 2025 –

At their March meeting in Montreal, NCPH’s Council of Past Presidents voted to immediately challenge each other to a special fundraising effort to cover the costs of NCPH memberships for colleagues who are suffering financial insecurity due to recent actions of the federal government. Read More

AAPI Digital Public History Project Showcase

22 April 2025 –

This May, as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, NCPH is pleased to sponsor an AAPI Digital Public History Project Showcase in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP). On May 14 from 3:00 - 4:15 pm Eastern time, join us on the National Trust's platform for a 75-minute free webinar showcasing exciting new or in-progress digital projects from a number of AAPI organizations. This webinar comes from two years of an NCPH-hosted AAPI public history working group.