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| Abbreviation | NCPH |
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| Formation | 1980 |
| Type | Organizations based in United States |
| Legal status | Active |
| Purpose | making the past useful in the present and to encouraging collaboration between historians and their publics |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
Official language | English |
President | Denise Meringolo |
Executive Director | Stephanie Rowe |
| Affiliations | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Staff | 3 |
| Website | http://ncph.org |
TheNational Council on Public History (NCPH) is an American professional membership association established in 1979 to support a diverse group of people, institutions, agencies, businesses, and academic programs associated with the field ofpublic history.
The National Council on Public History was established in 1979 as the professional organization of a growing movement advocating and practicing collaborative and interdisciplinary historical scholarship outside the boundaries of academia. With its emphasis on community engagement and activism, the term "public history" united people who were already practicing historical work outside of the classroom, including archivists, museum professionals, government historians and policy-makers, preservationists, oral historians, historical consultants, and more.[1]
The organization was co-founded by historianPhilip L. Cantelon and the formation of NCPH can be traced back to a 1978 public history conference inPhoenix, Arizona. Organized by G. Wesley Johnson of theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara and funded by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council, the conference's success resulted in the planning of the first national conference the following year.[2]
In 1979, the first formal national meeting of public historians took place inMontecito, California, near the University of California, Santa Barbara, with funding support from theRockefeller Foundation and theNational Endowment for the Humanities. Out of the 1979 conference, a steering committee was set up to explore the formation of a professional organization. The steering committee met inWashington, D.C., on September 14, 1979, where they voted to create the National Council on Public History.[3] NCPH was incorporated in the District of Columbia on May 2, 1980.[4]
The current president of the association isDenise Meringolo.[5] The NCPH Executive Office is located on the campus ofIndiana University Indianapolis (IUI), and the current executive director is Stephanie Rowe.[6] The association has partnered with a range of organizations and government agencies, including theNational Coalition for History,Organization of American Historians,American Association for State and Local History,American Council of Learned Societies,National Park Service, and theU.S. Department of Education.[7] The National Council on Public History's Annual Meeting is held every spring.
The National Council on Public History produces several print publications. In partnership with the Department of History at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara NCPH publishes a quarterly journal,The Public Historian. NCPH also publishes a quarterly newsletter,Public History News, a listserv,H-Public, and a blog,History@Work. NCPH also produces digital resources for public historians, including Best Practices documents; ThePublic History Navigator, a guide for undergraduate history majors to the landscape of public history graduate programs; and the Guide to Public History Programs, a tool for cataloging and comparing graduate public history programs.[8]
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