The National Council on Public History is a professional membership association established in 1979 to support a diverse group of people, institutions, agencies, businesses, and academic programs associated with the field of public history

Public history

Public history is a term that describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings. Public history practice has quite deep roots in the areas of historic preservation,...

. The NCPH publishes a quarterly journal, The Public Historian

The Public Historian

The Public Historian is the official publication of the National Council on Public History. It is a quarterly journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California...

, a quarterly newsletter, Public History News, and a listserv, H-Public. The current president of the association is Martin Blatt. The association has partnered with a range of organizations and government agencies, including the National Coalition for History, Organization of American Historians

Organization of American Historians

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, American Association for State and Local History

American Association for State and Local History

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, American Council of Learned Societies

American Council of Learned Societies

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, National Park Service

National Park Service

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, and the U.S. Department of Education.

List of NCPH Chairs

• 1980-83: G. Wesley Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1983-84: Larry Tise, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
• 1984-85: Jack Holl, Department of Energy
• 1985-86: Noel J. Stowe, Arizona State University
• 1986-87: Michael Scardaville, University of South Carolina
• 1987-88: Arnita A. Jones, History Associates, Inc.
• 1988-89: Barbara Howe
  Barbara Howe
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  , West Virginia University
• 1989-90: Theodore Karamanski, Loyola University of Chicago

List of NCPH Presidents

• 1990-91: David Kyvig, University of Akron
• 1991-92: Brit Allan Storey, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver
• 1992-93: Martin V. Melosi
  Martin V. Melosi
  Martin Victor Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and the director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. His research specialty is environmental and urban history...
  
  , University of Houston
• 1993-94: Philip V. Scarpino, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• 1994-95: Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Loyola University of Chicago
• 1995-96: Jeffrey Brown
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  , New Mexico State University
• 1996-97: Diane Britton, University of Toledo
• 1997-98: Jannelle Warren Findley, Arizona State University
• 1998-99: Dwight Pitcaithley, National Park Service
• 1999-00: Michael J. Devine, American Heritage Center of Wyoming
• 2000-01: Alan Newell, Historical Research Associates
• 2001-02: Patrick O'Bannon, Historical Research Associates
• 2002-03: Rebecca Conard, Middle Tennessee State University
• 2003-04: James Gardner
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  , National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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• 2004-05: Sharon Babaian, Canada Science and Technology Museum
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• 2005-06: Robert Weible, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
• 2006-08: Bill Bryans, Oklahoma State University
• 2008-10: Marianne Babal, Wells Fargo Bank
• 2010-present: Martin Blatt, National Park Service

External links

• Public History Resource Center
• National Council on Public History
• Reflections on an Idea: NCPH’s First Decade by Barbara J. Howe, Chair's Annual Address, The Public Historian, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1989), pp. 69-85