Since #NCPH2025 in March, our Council of Past Presidents has subsidized 100 memberships for colleagues who are suffering financial insecurity due to recent actions of the federal government. Learn more about the Membership Support Fund at ncph.org/news/announc... and share the news!
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During #NCPH2025 our Council of Past Presidents voted for an immediate special fundraising effort to cover memberships costs for colleagues suffering financial insecurity due to recent federal actions. To date, we've raised enough money to subsidize nearly 100 memberships. ncph.org/news/announc...
Still feeling inspired by #NCPH2025 and looking for opportunities to get more involved with NCPH?
Join the NCPH Committee Service Info Session on 4/30 at 1:00 pm ET to learn more about the work our committees do! Learn more and register at community.ncph.org/events/Event...
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Big shoutout to the fantastic Kacie Lucchini Butcher for these designs! 🤩 #advocacy #PublicHistory #NCPH2025
During #NCPH2025 attendees wrote #advocacy letters to their Rep.'s urging them to protect #PublicHistory programs and funding in their home states. If you're interested in supporting this work, we will send pre-stamped postcards to those who donate $10 or more at community.ncph.org/donations/do...!
Feeling very inspired post- #ncph2025. It’s been tough to find good projects for my undergrad public history class. I always want to work with community partners, but it’s tough w/uni policy on class size and my own limitations on time/energy.
Emma stands in front of a mounted poster, smiling. Title reads, "In the Shadow of the HIV/AIDS Crisis."
Group of people stand next to each other, smiling.
Emma talks to attendee about project, gesturing to mounted poster. People stand around, in conversation.
Art piece entitled "Abstinencia (Libertad)/Abstinence (Freedom)" by artist Yoan Capote, mounted at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Piece is bronze-cast hands, spelling "Libertad" in American Sign Language.
I am so grateful to have attended the National Council on Public History in Montréal last week. I presented my work on HIV/AIDS memory in Indianapolis with Jessica Baloun, Kayley Schacht, and Hannah Brennan, visited cultural institutions, and learned from fantastic public historians. #NCPH2025
#NCPH2025 was a great event and I’m grateful to have been a part of it, but I want to draw attention to the many folks who were unable to go to Montreal due to risk of being refused reentry, being detained, or deported at the US border.
Home from #NCPH2025. Exhausted but also rejuvenated. Disheartened but also determined. So very happy to have forged my career in public history. So very proud to serve public historians. I will not betray our professionalism or our values under any circumstances.
picture of a red button that says I belong the lacey wilson fan club
picture of a button maker in the background a button that says lacey wilson fan club in the foreground
Lacey Wilson @law6pubhist.bsky.social is a positive force for #PublicHistory and she is turning 35 in April. Let's seize this opportunity to celebrate Lacey and help support her impact; let's raise $350 for the Teen Museum Studies Program at the Underground Railroad Education Center!!! #NCPH2025
Poster sessions are my favorite because you can suck up new project ideas like a shop vac. The projects tend to be local, manageable and replicable. #NCPH2025
The other post conference job is sitting at the airport and reviewing all the business cards I collected and trying to remember what I was going to email each person about. #NCPH2025
History conferences can be inspiring, and #NCPH2025 was all of that. But here is the flip slide: Inspiration is pretty close to ambition, and ambition is desire, and (as the Buddha teaches) desire is the root of unhappiness.
I could just teach my classes and go fishing. But no, I have new ideas.
I underestimated you my fellow public historians! We had maybe a dozen folks at our "How 2 CampingCon" presentation, six of whom want to actually do it. Possible future CampingCons include the C&O canal, Adirondacks, Nebraska, Yosemite and the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks for showing up! #NCPH2025
Great conversations at #S59 surrounding the innovative, community-driven history work being led by @ucf.bsky.social students utilizing History Harvests #NCPH2025 I love seeing students advocating for and acting on project sustainability, solidarity, and community involvement!
So glad to hear that many saw (and commented on) our presentation "Accessibility and the 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting"! Access copies, accessible presentations & posters etc. Got some work to do but great progress. #accessibility #disabilitysky #academicsky #skystorians #ncph2025
So pleased with the successful ambush celebrations for @meghillhistory.bsky.social and @stasiatanzer.bsky.social, they're hands down the glue and glitter of @ncph.bsky.social #NCPH2025
Hey #NCPH2025 folks, I have a 7pm ticket for the AURA light show tonight at the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal that I can't use. DM me with your email address and I will transfer it to you for free! (More here: www.basiliquenotredame.ca/en/events/th...)
Conversation in this session on rereading the Declaration of Independence has me thinking about the scholars working on how it was shared, read, spread. Shout out to @emilysneff.bsky.social ! #ncph2025
Also many thanks to the people running this working group session for ensuring folks use the microphone. #ncph2025 #a11y
Just mentioned this on the session on the 250th, sharing more broadly: the Feast of Reason program and resources from Monticello. A framework/toolkit for encouraging civil and civic conversation #ncph2025 www.monticello.org/exhibits-eve...
Love to see inclusions of material culture, sociology, archaeology etc. ours is a broad profession #ncph2025
Questions coming up in Decolonial Approaches to America 250 working group #NCPH2025
-How do we bring people together as we’re grappling with conflicting narratives & interests on America’s founding & its commemoration?
-How can we be creative as public historians in the face of restrictions?
As I see folks with suitcases on this last day of the conference, I am having the late realization that we are the very last session and perhaps no one will come at all. In which case you will find us in the bar. #NCPH2025
Some key thoughts: build relationships beyond the grant. Be a good human. Develop reciprocal relationships. Do not let fear lead you, rely upon your training and do the work. Resilence and joy #NCPH2025 keynote: Marco Robinson, Nishani Frazier, Hilary Green, Christy Hyman, Tara Y. White.
#NCPH2025 keynote: This work requires you to be a good human being.
five Black panelists from various NC universities sit at a table, behind microphones and in front of a large screen
i’ve been excited for this keynote and two minutes in, Dr. Tara White has me tearing up. talking solidarity at #NCPH2025 “until i close my eyes, i’ll be doing history”
Quick café question on the last day of #NCPH2025: will next year’s joint AASLH-NCPH conference use #AASLHNCPH2026 or two separate hashtags? Should ‘united we stand, divided we fall’ be the appropriate, guiding theme for next year’s hashtag(s)?
