This year’s annual conference of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is being hosted jointly with the Utah Historical Society from April 10-14, 2024, in Salt Lake City, UT. We are pleased to publish the NCPH’s flagship journal, The Public Historian (TPH), in partnership with the NCPH. For those of you in Salt Lake City for the conference and/or anyone with an interest in public history, TPH‘s editor has curated a selection of articles focused on Utah’s public history, which we have made free to read online for a limited time:
Suhi Choi, “Mythologizing Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial” (TPH vol. 34, no. 1)
Rickey Lynn Hendricks, “Landmark Architecture for a Polygamous Family: The Brigham Young Domicile, Salt Lake City, Utah” (TPH vol. 11, no 1)
Gregory Smock, “Every History Has a Nature: Thoughts on Doing Public Environmental History” (TPH vol. 44, no. 3)
John Barnes, “The Struggle to Control the Past: Commemoration, Memory, and the Bear River Massacre of 1863” (TPH vol. 30, no, 1)
Are you at the conference and interested in learning more about TPH? Please come to the “Meet the TPH Editors” coffee break in the Exhibit Hall to to learn about forthcoming issues of The Public Historian and to meet the editors of the definitive voice of the public history profession. See details below:
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Break in the Exhibit Hall
Pop-Up | Meet the TPH Editors!
(Alpine Ballroom)
Sponsored by the University of California Press.
You might also be interested in attending the “Women in Public History” session, which is being facilitated by TPH Editor Sarah Case, among others:
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
WG6. Women in Public History
(Canyon A)
This session addresses two distinct yet connected action areas:
women in public history and women’s public history. It grows out
of a robustly attended, intergenerational 2023 NCPH session and
subsequent virtual meetups considering the state of women’s public
history (we define “woman” as broadly inclusive and non-binary)
along the threads of the professional, political, and historical. We
place women’s public history as a site of innovation at the forefront
of intersectional, community-engaged thinking while strategizing on
how women practitioners can respond to an increasingly hostile and
precarious labor market and political climate.
Facilitators: Sarah Case, University of California, Santa Barbara
Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston
G. Samanatha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
Angela Tate, Smithsonian National Museum of African
American History and Culture
Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston
Does your library subscribe to TPH? If not, ensure ongoing access to the journal for yourself, your students, and colleagues by asking your librarian to subscribe. Membership options that include individual print and/or online access to the journal are available through the National Council on Public History.
