Please join us in congratulating this year’s award winners in a number of public history formats, including public history project, book, The Public Historian article, grassroots public history, consulting, and more! This year’s Robert Kelley Memorial Award, honoring people or organizations who have succeeded in making history relevant to the public, goes to the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), which has collaborated to produce community-curated public humanities projects in forty cities and counting. Read More
Registration for the first ever joint meeting of NCPH and the American Association for State and Local History is now open! Register by August 3 to get the Early Bird rate. To save on registration, become a member of NCPH to access the member rates (note that there may be up to 72 hours between the purchase of your membership and the availability of the member registration rate). Read More
The NCPH community is invited to join the Advocacy Committee for an open virtual meeting to share what you need from public history advocacy efforts. While continuing to respond to threats against the field, we also want to create space to ask: what do we want public history to look like, and how do we advocate for that vision together? Read More
We acknowledge that it’s strange to be in the midst of two conference cycles at once, but time marches on! Topic proposals for our St. Louis 2027 conference, “Holding the Line,” are due on Sunday, May 10 by 11:59 pm your local time. Read More
With the change in leadership coming early next month, NCPH’s incoming Vice President, Priya Chhaya, will dive into appointing committee members to support our work. If you’ve ever wanted to serve on an NCPH committee, now’s the time to put your name forward. Read More
“Realizing the Power of History: Past, Present, and Future Strategies” will take place on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. During this event, NCPH will bring together a diverse group of current practitioners—museum professionals, historic site interpreters, public history educators, and others engaged in historical inquiry and knowledge creation—to identify and name the challenges impacting the future of our field. Read More
Interested in getting more involved with NCPH? Consider joining the NCPH Committee Service Info Session on April 14, 2026, at 4:00 pm Eastern to learn more about committee service and the work our committees do! Read More
NCPH is participating in a social media campaign with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) the week of April 13-17, and we want to feature you on NCPH socials! Read More
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites poster submissions for presentation at the 2026 Joint Conference with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), taking place September 16-19, 2026, in Providence, Rhode Island. The poster session itself will take place September 18, 2026. Read More
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