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Pomeroy Foundation Markers Workshop

30 July 2025 –

Infuse historical marker grant applications into your curriculum to turn your community’s history into a fully funded marker from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. In this workshop, Susan Hughes will introduce the benefits of the Foundation’s diverse marker grant programs and national education initiative, which guides students in researching primary sources to apply for a Pomeroy Marker. Read More

Board and Nominating Committee Welcoming Nominees

30 July 2025 –

The Nominating Committee seeks emerging leaders from within NCPH – individuals who are ready to contribute their perspectives, expertise, and energy – to help shape the future of our organization through Board and Nominating Committee service. While the committee tries to engage widely within membership, it is not possible to personally connect with every single member. Read More

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