National Council on Public History

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. The NCPH publishes a quarterly journal, The Public Historian, 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, American Association for State and Local History, American Council of Learned Societies, National Park Service, 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, 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, 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, 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, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
• 2004-05: Sharon Babaian, Canada Science and Technology Museum
• 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