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Apply for 2025 Creative Showcase

Calling all creatives! “Public History + ?: A Creative Showcase” invites NCPH Annual Meeting attendees with a creative practice (related to their public history work or not) to share their work with their colleagues. The Creative Showcase will take place Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 10am – 2pm. Read More

Early Bird deadline is 1/29!

The Early Bird registration deadline for NCPH 2025 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (March 26-29) is in just under two weeks, on Wednesday, January 29 at 11:59 pm your local time. Register now to save $$ on your registration and sign up for available events and tours! Read More

2025 NCPH board election open through January 15

It’s that time again! The 2025 National Council on Public History election is now open, and we hope all members will vote by January 15 to help determine the future of NCPH by selecting the leaders of the organization. This year we are electing a new Secretary of the Board of Directors; three at-large Board positions; and two members of the Nominating Committee. Read More

NCPH Social Media Update

Effective last Friday, November 15, NCPH has stepped back from the Twitter/X platform. Our account, which retains the history and memory of a vibrant and joyful online public history community, will stay up, but we will no longer be actively monitoring or posting there. Read More

Apply for Accessibility Working Group

NCPH, with support from the American Council of Learned Societies, is now taking applications for participants in a 2025 yearlong virtual working group whose task will be to develop a cohesive and comprehensive strategy for NCPH’s accessibility efforts—both internally as a membership and professional organization and in the ways we can support our members in centering disability history and disability justice in their work. Read More

Two RLoI through NCPH-NPS Partnership

Via our cooperative agreement with the National Park Service (NPS), the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is seeking letters of interest for two upcoming historical research and writing projects. If selected we’ll ask project historians to join NCPH for the duration of your contract, but you need not be a member to submit a letter of interest. Read More

Open Calls for NCPH2025

There are currently four open calls to get on the program at the NCPH Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, with deadlines ranging from October 10 through November 15. Read through the CFPs and fill out the form for whichever feels like the best fit. Read More

Call for Working Group Discussants open through 10/15

We’re seeking discussants for ten working groups, which will work virtually for the next six months and then convene in person at our annual meeting next March 26-29 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Group facilitators (already selected, along with the topics) will lead their discussants through a conversation around a specific problem or issue of shared concern, with the aim to create an end product for the public history community. Read More