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06 February 2026 – Monica Berg
Thank you to all voters and the Nominating Committee, and a special thanks to the individual candidates who agreed to allow their names to be placed on the ballot! While it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to our friends and colleagues transitioning out of their leadership roles at NCPH, there’s a lot of new and exciting changes afoot in the organization. Read More
05 February 2026 – Monica Berg
Organized by NCPH’s Professional Development Committee
The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) has adopted ten Agents of Deterioration—the ten biggest threats to heritage objects and collections, including physical threats like fire or water and human threats like failures of organizational systems over time—which have been widely adopted by collections specialists and conservators across the world. Read More
22 January 2026 – Monica Berg
For the last couple of years, NCPH has been working with the National Park Service and independent historians Jackie Gonzales and Lindsey Weaver as they produced a legislative history of the National Heritage Area (NHA) program. Designed to provide clarity for the network of National Park Service employees and their many regional partners who work with or for national heritage areas, the legislative history tracks the origins of the NHA system and its sometimes confusing evolution through the present. Read More
16 January 2026 – Monica Berg
In this one-hour webinar from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, attendees will learn how they can preserve and share local and community stories while strengthening a lasting sense of place through fully funded historical markers. Read More
08 January 2026 – Meghan Hillman
The 2026 National Council on Public History’s 2026 election closes on January 15, 2026. We hope all members will vote to help determine the future of NCPH by selecting the leaders of the organization. This year, we are electing a Vice-President/President-Elect, Treasurer, three Board of Directors positions, and two Nominating Committee positions. Read More
19 December 2025 – Monica Berg
The NCPH office will be closed December 22, 2025 through January 2, 2026 for the winter holidays so staff can spend time with our families and recharge for a busy year of advocacy work and programming to come. Read More
06 December 2025 – Monica Berg
In four parts, this series presented by NCPH and the American Conservation experience (ACE) will ask experts to help public historians and public humanitarians tackle questions like: what do we mean when we talk about gen AI? How do we recognize it, and what AI tools have potential use cases for the public humanities? Read More
13 November 2025 – Monica Berg
The new AASLH-NCPH 2026 final proposal deadline is December 5; AASLH-NCPH 2026 registration and hotel rates now uploaded. Click “Read more” for more details. Read More
04 November 2025 – Monica Berg
The 2026 National Council on Public History election is now open! We hope all members will vote to help determine the future of NCPH by selecting the leaders of the organization. This year, we are electing a Vice-President/President-Elect, Treasurer, three Board of Directors positions, and two Nominating Committee positions. Read More
29 October 2025 – Monica Berg
Join colleagues from around the country for a 45-minute conversation to share stories and build connections with fellow public history professors on November 19 at 4:00 pm Eastern. Feel free to come share your stories, struggles, and successes and maybe make some friends in the process. Read More