National Council on Public History - NCPH

NCPH is excited to partner with the the Association of African American Museums on the upcoming special issue of The Public Historian (TPH) “Public History as Resistance: The Evolution of Black Museums, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Cultural Spaces.”

Please send inquiries and proposals to TPH editor Sarah Case at [email protected] with the subject line “Public History as Resistance Proposal Submission” by December 31, 2024.

Learn more at:

CFP Public History as Resistance – Association of African American Museums         Call for Proposals: Special Issue of The Public Historian in Partnership with the Association of African American Museums   Public History as Resistance: The Evolut...

There's still time to join fellow public historians in the great outdoors of southwestern New Mexico this Fall. Register for our upcoming mini-con, CampingCon 2024: Wilderness and the Historian by September 9th to join in the adventure. 🌲 Learn more about the organizers, read the program, and register here: https://ncph.org/conference/campingcon-2024/ 🌲

CampingCon 2024 | National Council on Public History CampingCon 2024: Wilderness and the Historian NCPH members and non-members alike are invited to gather in southwestern New Mexico to discuss the concept of “wilderness” and the place of the great outdoors in public history work. The Gila Wilderness, brainchild of Aldo Leopold, celebrates its ce...

Check out the latest History@Work article discussing the “Arab American Labor” digital humanities project led by the Khayralla Center for Lebelanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University.

https://ncph.org/history-at-work/arab-american-labor/

“Arab American Labor” uses ArcGIS StoryMaps to enhance historical understanding through maps, videos, and images. Educators, history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the intersection of MENA migration and US labor history are encouraged to view and use these materials.

You can learn more and access educational materials for use in the classroom at lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu.

“Arab American Labor" digital humanities project | National Council on Public History As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history a...

Summer intern at the Minnesota Historical Society Isaac Trimble is hard at work making Native-run newspapers digitized and accessible online, opening up access to researchers and tribal communities outside Saint Paul. Many of these newspapers, particularly the Iapi Oaye paper written in Dakota, detail the daily lives of Indigenous peoples in Minnesota. https://loom.ly/WYtHDOg

Native newspapers archived online in meaningful project The Minnesota Historical Society is posting old issues of Native newspapers online so that more people can have a chance to access this history.

Join us for the first in a series of Fall theme study webinars on World War II and the American Home Front! The first webinar, "Environmental History of the Home Front," Matt Basso and Scott Morris will be held Thursday, August 29 at 3:00 pm EST. Learn more about the entire series and register here: https://community.ncph.org/event/WWIIAHFWebinars

Wanna know more about what goes on behind the scenes at NCPH? 👀Learn more about our Nominating Committee at a Zoom info session on Friday, August 23rd at 1pm EST. Join members of the National Council on Public History’s Nominating Committee, Board of Directors, and Long Range Planning (LRP) Committee to hear about the organization's elected positions and how these roles help to implement parts of the 2023-2028 LRP.

This informational session will feature past and current board members and nominating committee members discussing their experiences and answering your questions.

We are excited to help you better understand what these commitments look like, how to self nominate, and more! Register here:
https://community.ncph.org/event/NomCom2024

Call for Posters is now open! Proposals are due 10/10. The NCPH poster session is a two-hour block of time at the annual meeting where presenters share projects with attendees in the form of a poster.

📈 The Poster Session is an alternative to presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion and can be especially useful for works-in-progress. It may be a particularly appropriate format for presentations where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project. 📉

Read more about the Poster Session and submit your work here: https://ncph.org/news/ncph-2025-call-for-posters-open-through-10-10/

Reminder! for the 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting are due Monday, 7/15. will center around the theme Solidarity. Read the entire CFP and SUBMIT here: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/

NCPH and The National Park Service seek a qualified historian (or team of historians) to produce a comprehensive legislative history of the National Heritage Area Program with an executive summary compiled in a professional, publishable report. This project will detail the legislation history and analyze how each legislative action influenced how the program is managed by the National Park Service over time, to include how funding was distributed to the individual NHAs and to the NPS regional offices. Read the entire RLoI and apply here:

National Park Service Projects | National Council on Public History NCPH-NPS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT In 2020 the National Council on Public History signed a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. On this page we’ll be occasionally releasing RFPs or Requests for Letters of Interest in search of principal investigators for contracts in fulfillment of th...

Submit, submit, submit! We have 2 open until Mon, 7/15. Submissions for “Solidarity/Solidarité”, in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and “Condition Report: the State of Public History in the South” are DUE next week.

Learn more and send us your proposals here: https://ncph.org/news/deadline-approaching-2-cfps-due-7-15/

We hope you're staying cool and very hydrated this summer, wherever you may be. If you're coping by thinking about the cooler weather we'll experience at in Montreal, Canada, we feel that! Feed your imagination and snag an NCPH beanie while supplies last ❄️❄️❄️. Donors who give $25 or more to our Annual Fund by September 1 will receive an NCPH-logo beanie alongside your thank you letter. Learn more and donate here: https://community.ncph.org/donations/

Join us for a summer workshop! Registration is now open for the Disability, Language, and Public History Communication workshop, facilitated by Nicole Belolan on Friday, August 9 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern.

Register to participate in a conversation about the intersections of disability, accessibility, language, and public history. This free virtual workshop is designed for participants new to this topic, but all are welcome. https://community.ncph.org/event/DisabilityWorkshop

Registration is now open for our ⛺Camping Mini-Con⛺ in Mimbres, New Mexico! Join us at Camp Thunderbird at the edge of the Gila National Wilderness from October 10th-12th. We're expecting this event to fill up quick, so don't wait to get your tickets. Learn more here: https://community.ncph.org/event/CampingCon2024

Registration is now open for the NCPH mini-con in Lafayette, Louisiana from October 4-5! Proposals are accepted until July 15, learn more and register at: https://ncph.org/conference/condition-report-the-state-of-public-history-in-the-south/.

If you want to be just like our membership coordinator, Stasia, and wear your support for NCPH proudly on your noggin, now is the time to donate! If you donate to our Annual Fund by September 1 you’ll get an NCPH logo beanie (while supplies last) alongside your donation letter as an extra thank you - just in time for the cooler weather.

The Annual Fund in particular supports the general yearly operating expenses of NCPH—which is especially important to us now, as we work to grow our staff capacity and build out more inclusion efforts. Learn more and donate here: https://community.ncph.org/donations/donate.asp?id=22855

Are you a seasoned NCPH conference-goer, new to the organization, bored on summer break, or just a curious person? Great! You have the opportunity to provide feedback on 32 early NCPH 2025 topic proposals. These early-proposers are looking for your (kind and constructive) thoughts on their "Solidarity | Solidarité" session topics.

You can check out each proposal (and even see if there's a session you'd be a good fit to join 👀) here: https://ncph.org/phc/2025-topic-proposals/

How are we staying fresh and cool this summer? Thinking about NCPH 2025 in Montréal, Québec, Canada 🤓😎🥯. All proposals for sessions, working groups, and workshops are DUE on July 15th, 2024.

Learn more and submit here: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/

CFPs | National Council on Public History SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF)  National Council on Public History Annual Meeting Montréal, Québec, Canada | March 26-29, 2025 Proposal Deadline: July 15, 2024  Solidarity (from the French solidarité) is a word for shared responsibilities and mutual obligations. It conveys a sense of interconne...

🥇 Attention NCPH! 🥇

Have you been dying to find out if you’re going to compete (for a feature on NCPH’s Instagram account)? Do you want to show off your talent? Are you trying to meet some new public history teammates? Doing a takeover for the official NCPH account is everyone’s podium dream!

We’re looking for NCPH members to takeover our Instagram account anytime this summer and into fall. Takeovers are a great way to network, connect, and share your work with the public history community. Takeovers can be done by people on the field, adjacent to the field, in school for public history, or public history nerds! Takeovers usually last 5-7 days. You can post as often or as little as you’d like, using a combination of photos, stories, or live videos. First place podium (your imagination) is the limit!

If you’re interested in a takeover, have questions, or know someone you think should do a takeover, please reach out. Slide into our DMs! Or email me (Kacie - the NCPH Instagram Manager) at Contact @ KLButcher . Com. 💻

Looking for feedback on your NCPH 2025 Annual Meeting proposal? Look no further! We got you. Submit a Topic Proposal Form by this weekend and receive considered responses and potential offers of collaboration from NCPH members far and wide.

Submit here by June 15: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/topic-proposal-form/

Registration is now open for !

NCPH members and non-members alike are invited to gather in southwestern New Mexico to discuss the concept of “wilderness” and the place of the great outdoors in public history work. The Gila Wilderness, brainchild of Aldo Leopold, celebrates its centennial year in 2024—so plan to participate this October 10-12, 2024. The conference will be held at the rustic Camp Thunderbird in Mimbres, New Mexico, adjacent to the Gila National Forest.

Participation is limited to 40 attendees, so register soon to secure your spot. Registration is open until Sept 2 or we reach 40, whichever comes first. Learn more and register at https://ncph.org/conference/campingcon-2024/.

Our next Public History Book Club hang is coming up! On Thursday, June 13 we're reading Liz Ševcenko's Public History for a Post-Truth Era. Stay in the loop and register here: https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=NCPHBookClub2024

NCPH now welcomes proposals for our 2025 annual meeting next March 26-29 in Montréal, Québec, Canada! Final proposals for sessions, working groups, and workshops are due July 15, 2024. If you'd like to submit an optional topic proposal for early feedback, those are due June 15.

This year's theme, Solidarity/Solidarité, asks hashtag workers to consider our shared responsibilities and mutual obligations to achieve solidarity within our organizations, with the communities we serve, and with the wider world we live in.

As befits our host city, hashtag will be a bilingual conference! The French translation of the CFP is coming soon, and submitters can choose to submit a proposal in English or French. A track of French-speaking sessions will be facilitated with simultaneous translation. Read the full CFP and submit here: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/

New publicly-available piece! Read this Q&A with guest editor, Amanda Moniz, on the most recent special issue, "Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy": https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/65364/qa-with-amanda-moniz-guest-editor-of-the-public-historians-special-issue-material-culture-as-a-methodology-for-the-history-of-philanthropy/ University of California Press

Q&A with Amanda Moniz, guest editor of The Public Historian's special issue, “Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy” How can material objects help us better understand the complex, contested, and sometimes contradictory history of philanthropy? This question guides the new special issue of The Public Historian, “Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy,” guest edited by Amanda Moniz. M...

Calling public history educators! Next Tuesday, May 21, we're wrapping up the semester with a meet up to discuss syllabi, assignments, and more and what you may do differently in the fall. Sign up for the Zoom link at https://community.ncph.org/event/SemesterWrapUp.

Register for Kristin Gallas' virtual workshop, "Interpreting the History and Legacies of Slavery in School Programs" by 5/22.

Based on the book "Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens at Museums and Historic Sites," this virtual workshop (over two four-hour days) will cover pedagogically-sound and emotionally-aware techniques for developing school programs on the subject of enslavement and strategies for training and caring for the staff implementing the programs.

Lear more and register here: https://community.ncph.org/event/InterpretingSlaveryWorkshop

Join NCPH staff and members of the NCPH Board of Directors over Zoom on Friday, April 26th at noon EST to learn more about getting involved with our committees! 😁

Sign up for the Zoom link via: https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=CommitteeInfo
Read more about our committees here: https://ncph.org/about/governance-committees/board-of-directors-and-committees/

University of California Press has removed the paywall from a selection of content during the joint conference, 4/10-14. ucpress.edu/blog/65192/exp… via

Exploring Public History in Utah This year's annual conference of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is being hosted jointly with the Utah Historical Society from April 10-14, 2024, in Salt Lake City, UT. We are pleased to publish the NCPH's flagship journal, The Public Historian (TPH), in partnership with the NCPH. For

The Community Pillar of the new Long Range Plan (LRP) calls upon NCPH to develop, engage, and connect a public history community. In reviewing feedback from both members and nonmembers, two central themes stood out: a desire for more programming beyond the Annual Meeting and opportunities for mentoring.

Read more about this aspect of the Long Range Plan on the History@Work blog:

Long Range Plan: Community | National Council on Public History The Community Pillar of the new Long Range Plan (LRP) calls upon NCPH to develop, engage, and connect a public history community. In reviewing feedback from both members and nonmembers, two central themes stood out: a desire for more programming beyond the Annual Meeting and opportunities for mentor...

Hey y'all: Registration for closes next Wednesday, March 27th. We are so excited to see you in Salt Lake City in just a few weeks! Learn more and register here: https://ncph.org/conference/2024-annual-meeting

Check our the latest History@Work article and read about the experiences of Alanna Brown and Leena Hussein as they reflect on a Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon they participated in at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University" | National Council on Public History Credible sources are essential to improving both the reliability and credibility of Wikipedia as an academic resource. During the Wiki Edit-a-Thon at York University, we worked under the supervision of Data Visualization and Analytics Librarian Alexandra Wong as placement students in HIST 4840 Publi...