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02 May 2024

TPH Special Issue Call for Papers

Our journal, The Public Historian (TPH), calls for papers for a special issue: Labor and Public History. Proposals, which should be no longer than one double-spaced page, should be submitted to TPH at [email protected]. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2024. Read More

22 April 2024

Register for Virtual OAH-NCPH

We’re excited to collaborate with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) on a spring virtual conference series. Join us April 30 – May 2, 2024, for live and pre-recorded sessions and a workshop on collaborating with NCPH and OAH on National Park Service work. Read More

05 April 2024

We hope to see you in SLC!

We’re out of the office! NCPH will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8-14 for our annual meeting. If you’re coming to the conference, we’ll see you soon! If you’re local, it’s not too late to register onsite. If you can’t make it this year, be sure to follow along on Twitter for highlights, and consider joining us and the Organization for American Historians for our joint virtual conference, April 30 – May 2, 2024. Read More

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26 Apr

Have you been wondering what's up with NCPH's 2023-2028 Long Range Plan? 👀 Get familiar with it by reading through our recent multi-authored History@Work series on the #LRP's 5 pillars! https://ncph.org/history-at-work/tag/long-range-plan-2023-2028/. The full plan is available on http://ncph.org.

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29 ·

23 Apr

#OralHistory #PublicHistory Friends: A student interviewed someone for an oral history project who consented to the transcript being used but not the audio. Curious what others have done. Do we delete the audio after transcribing? Or preserve it but not make it public? TIA.

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26 Apr

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Editor’s Corner: Philanthropy and public history

Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.

How can material objects help us better understand the complex, contested, and sometimes contradictory history of philanthropy? Read More

Long Range Plan: Stewardship

If we learned anything from the 2018–2022 Long Range Plan, it’s that imagining the events of the next five years—let alone planning for them—requires a great deal of creativity. Over many months of focus groups, drafts, and revisions, the Long Range Planning Committee has worked to develop a flexible framework for a set of ambitious, but attainable, goals that build on and mutually reinforce one another. Read More

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