November 2, 2022

Topics of Interest for History@Work

The History@Work editors have compiled a list of topics of interests they’d like to see on the blog. If you’re doing work in these areas or have a related idea, submit a pitch to [email protected]! The full guidelines for submission are listed at https://ncph.org/history-at-work/guidelines/.

Topics of interest:

  • defining public history through practice
  • doing Public history [in an anti-democratic public sphere]
  • intersections of public history and other types of community building related to religious life, foodways, planning and development, etc.
  • community engagement and public history
  • cross-departmental or cross-university public history projects in post-secondary settings
  • teaching, pedagogy, and public history in post-secondary education settings and community settings
  • new models for public history in higher education, especially in non-elite settings
  • discussions about where non-historians seek out history
  • intersection of design and historic preservation or redevelopment
  • ethics in public history
  • labor and volunteering in public history
  • physical and emotional safety of public history workers
  • sustainability and public history
  • identity-based storytelling related to Black history, latino/a history, LGBTQ history, etc., not associated with yearly commemoration activities
  • disability history, disability justice, and access and inclusion for disabled people in public history settings
  • material culture in public history
  • doing digital public history projects with community partners
  • repatriation, return, and public history, especially in non-museum settings
  • issues in digital history (such as data integrity and sustainability)
  • responses to or pieces that complement The Public Historian content
  • NCPH-related content (such as related to operations, Board committees, and other NCPH-sponsored activities)