“History@Work” is a digital publication project of the National Council on Public History. The blog was created in March 2012 to expand on our long-running listserv, H-Public, to serve as an online “commons” where people from a variety of areas of the public history field could share ideas and news, and to create a bridge to future digital and other publication efforts. Like the field itself, the blog is designed to blend scholarly, professional, and civic discourse arising from the practice of presenting history in public.

Although defining public history in any conclusive way always proves elusive, the categories above aim to cover as wide a range of perspectives and venues as possible. Here’s what you can expect to find in the various areas of the blog:

• Annual Conference: serves as the central conference blog during our annual spring conference
• Consultants’ Corner: news and discussion of interest to those working as consultants in the field
• Exhibits & Projects: announcements of new public history projects, plus critical reviews of conventional and unconventional exhibitry in our “Off the Wall” section
• View from the New: issues of particular interest to those who are training to be public historians or who have just entered the field
• In the Academy: issues of interest to those who teach in public history programs and/or others in the academy whose work relates to public history
• International Perspectives: cross-cultural or comparative discussions of public history practice around the world; transnational dimensions of the field
• NCPH: a space for news and updates relating to the National Council on Public History
• Social/Environmental Issues: pulls together postings on the wide range of public history questions that touch on social justice and the environment
• News: regular postings of short news items from around the field of public history

The blog is “lightly peer-edited”–that is, volunteer editorial teams with interests in specific sub-topics in public history invite and recruit postings, which may then be edited and revised for relevance and focus. Opinions are those of individual authors and not necessarily those of editors or the National Council on Public History.  Click here for information about section editors and how you can propose a post.

One of the central goals of the blog is to serve as a space for discussion, and we invite your comments and feedback on posts. Our privacy policy and guidelines for comments can be found here.