Working groups, involving facilitators and up to twelve discussants, allow conferees to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during the annual meeting. In these seminar-like conversations, participants have a chance to discuss questions raised by specific programs, problems, or initiatives in their own public history practice with peers grappling with similar issues. Working groups articulate a purpose they are working toward or a problem they are actively trying to solve and aim to create an end product(s), such as a report, article, website, or exhibition. For 2018, eight working groups are assembling:
- Insider/Outsider: Racial Bias and Positionality in Interpretation
- Disrupting Institutional Power: Imagining a Regional Model for Public History Education
- La Frontera: Public History on the Borderlands
- Negotiating Power Lines: Economic Justice and the Ethics of Public History
- Agriculture and Public History
- Crossing the Line: Facilitating Digital Access to Primary Sources
- Millennials as Change-Makers: The Power Lines between Generations in Public History Institutions
- The Public History of Labor
For more information or to join a working group, see the NHCP 2018 Working Group Call for Discussants Flier
