Meghan Hillman
@meghillhistory.bsky.social
Program Manager @ncph. Current mood = screaming
NCPH had the pleasure of helping to shepherd this project, and it was exciting from start to finish.
Our report is published! Free and available to the public!
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NCPH had the pleasure of helping to shepherd this project, and it was exciting from start to finish.
these networks, streaming services, and media conglomerates are really underestimating how many times i am willing to re-watch my DVD box set of the first season of veronica mars over and over and over again. like...i will outlast you.
a woman giving a thumbs up next to a man with glasses
ALT: a woman giving a thumbs up next to a man with glasses
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
these networks, streaming services, and media conglomerates are really underestimating how many times i am willing to re-watch my DVD box set of the first season of veronica mars over and over and over again. like...i will outlast you.
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The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing.
Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it.
Come join us!
This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**
Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it.
Come join us!
This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**
Reporter, Midwest
Regions
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September 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing.
Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it.
Come join us!
This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**
Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it.
Come join us!
This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**
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Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️
cwmemory.com/contact-me/
cwmemory.com/contact-me/
contact
Use this contact form to get in touch with me. Please provide as much information as possible if you are interested in scheduling a speaking engagement, history tour or workshop. I will do my best to ...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️
cwmemory.com/contact-me/
cwmemory.com/contact-me/
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every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory
Breaking news: The White House will launch an aggressive review of Smithsonian exhibitions, collections and operations ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebrations next year.
White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory
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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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Join us on 7/24 from 1-2:30pm ET for a #VirtualProgram discussion of the forthcoming NCPH-NPS authored anthology, “Disability in Place.” Learn more about the work and process of this project and why it matters for the current moment. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #PublicHistory
July 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Join us on 7/24 from 1-2:30pm ET for a #VirtualProgram discussion of the forthcoming NCPH-NPS authored anthology, “Disability in Place.” Learn more about the work and process of this project and why it matters for the current moment. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #PublicHistory
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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
if it's safe for you to talk to the press, @ncph.bsky.social wants to help make those connections. Sign up if you're willing and able to be contacted by a journalist to advocate for public history. if you have q's about your data/privacy, DM me or email ncph@iu.edu.
NCPH is starting an internal repository of public historians who are willing to speak to members of the press. If you're willing/able to take on this advocacy work, fill out the form and tell us what topics you can speak to and how you'd like the press to get in touch: ncph.org/what-is-publ... 1/3
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April 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
if it's safe for you to talk to the press, @ncph.bsky.social wants to help make those connections. Sign up if you're willing and able to be contacted by a journalist to advocate for public history. if you have q's about your data/privacy, DM me or email ncph@iu.edu.
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Hi all. I would appreciate it if you reposted @ncph.bsky.social 's below message. Given our inability to circulate this study through normal channels, we want to make sure those that would find these on-access chapters useful learn about them.
NCPH is pleased to announce the publication of WWII and the American Home Front, Volume 2! Produced under a cooperative agreement between NCPH and the NPS and led by PI @mattbasso.bsky.social at University of Utah. Thank you Matt and all NPS staff who contributed! ncph.org/news/wwii-an...
WWII and the American Home Front, Vol 2 | National Council on Public History
NCPH is pleased to announce the publication of World War II and the American Home Front, Volume 2. This update to the 2007 World War II and the American Home Front Theme Study was produced under a co...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Hi all. I would appreciate it if you reposted @ncph.bsky.social 's below message. Given our inability to circulate this study through normal channels, we want to make sure those that would find these on-access chapters useful learn about them.
This is awesome! Perri is one of my favorite people.
Congrats to Perri Meldon, whose article in THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN (which we pub in partnership with @ncph.bsky.social) has won the Catherine Bishir Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Enjoy the article paywall-free for a limited time. doi.org/10.1525/tph....
Tubman’s BlackwaterWading Through Public History at a Wildlife Refuge
This essay evaluates the historic landscape of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay where Harriet Tubman was born and enslaved. By claiming the Eastern Shore as representative of Tubman’s world, tourism boosters...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is awesome! Perri is one of my favorite people.
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Come write postcards tomorrow with @ncph.bsky.social and other wonderful Public History Colleagues
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National Council on Public History
Please join the NCPH Advocacy Committee for a lunchtime write-in on Wednesday, February 26th from 1 - 2pm EST. We will write postcards to our representatives emphasizing our concerns and commiserate with folks doing public history in our nuanced and not uncommon political spheres.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Come write postcards tomorrow with @ncph.bsky.social and other wonderful Public History Colleagues
#PublicHistory
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#PublicHistory
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just a quick reminder about keeping federal historians safe and helping them keep their jobs.
(1/2) A quick note to our community (re: 📬 ): As you pursue much-needed #advocacy work on behalf of history and historians, please do NOT email gov’t historians at their dot gov emails with advocacy-related or political messages.
February 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
just a quick reminder about keeping federal historians safe and helping them keep their jobs.
👏think like a cat and sabo tabby yourself a mess 👏
Anything they want, hide it or mislabel it. Anything they plug in, unplug it. Remove light bulbs. Move cubicles around so they hide some of the doors and when they leave the room move them again so they hide different doors. Play really loud music. Think like a cat and sabo tabby yourself a mess
February 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
👏think like a cat and sabo tabby yourself a mess 👏
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
NCPH is hosting a postcard and letter-writing campaign on Zoom tomorrow (Friday, Feb 7) from 2-3 pm ET. I'll be there, figuring out how best to be a thorn in the side of my congressional reps until they are SICK of me. Y'all can join the Zoom via this link: community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
National Council on Public History
Please join the NCPH Advocacy Committee for a lunchtime write-in on Friday, February 7th from 2 - 3pm EST. We will write postcards to our representatives emphasizing our concerns and commiserate with folks doing public history in our nuanced and not uncommon political spheres.
community.ncph.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NCPH is hosting a postcard and letter-writing campaign on Zoom tomorrow (Friday, Feb 7) from 2-3 pm ET. I'll be there, figuring out how best to be a thorn in the side of my congressional reps until they are SICK of me. Y'all can join the Zoom via this link: community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
the last good thing i saw over at the other place was a video of a beaver eating cabbage. so here's a gif of a beaver eating cabbage for a seamless social media transition.
a beaver is eating a piece of cabbage through a glass window .
Alt: low quality gif of a beaver eating a piece of cabbage through a glass window .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM
the last good thing i saw over at the other place was a video of a beaver eating cabbage. so here's a gif of a beaver eating cabbage for a seamless social media transition.