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 current president of the association is Alexandra Lord. The NCPH Executive Office is located on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and the current Executive Director is Stephanie Rowe. 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. The National Council on Public History's Annual Meeting is held every spring, most recently in Indianapolis, Indiana in April 2017. NCPH will meet next in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 18-21, 2018.

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 already practicing historical work outside of the classroom, including archivists, museum professionals, government historians and policy-makers, preservationists, oral historians, historical consultants, and more.

The formation of NCPH can be traced back to a 1978 public history conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Organized by G. Wesley Johnson of the University 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.

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