The Teaching American History (TAH) grant program is funded through the Department of Education. Spread over a three-year period, Elementary and Secondary teachers can participate in local educational agency
sponsored programs to improve their knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history. In return, the knowledge and experiences gained will be used to enrich history discussions in the classroom.
How can NCPH help your TAH project?
The National Council on Public History is an international professional association of public historians that seeks to bring a greater understanding and appreciation of history to a broader public and demonstrate the importance and relevance of history in contemporary society. NCPH unites a broad range of individuals—who work in museums, historical societies, government agencies, historical consulting firms, national parks and historic sites—with experience in providing professional development. By partnering with NCPH you draw on the expertise of our members.
NCPH can strengthen your TAH project by:
1. Assisting you in creating workshops, seminars, and tours that will enable teachers to use the primary documents, material culture, and landscapes of American history more adeptly in their own development of curriculum.
- NCPH can help identify and incorporate historic sites, museums, monuments and memorials, and other historic places that teachers can use to bring history alive in the classroom.
- NCPH can provide historians experienced in using museum collections and local, state, and national historic sites in the interpretation and presentation of history.
- NCPH can act as a liaison between your project and historical institutions or sites in your area, or in other states, to establish site visits and behind the scene tours that involve expert education staff.
2. Offering annual meeting registrations. The NCPH Annual Meeting each spring is an ideal professional development opportunity for teachers. Our conference is a small, dynamic, and highly accessible event that brings together history practitioners and educators from K-12 to the university and from museums to private businesses to national park sites. Sessions, tours, and other conference events provide a chance for teachers to exchange ideas about education and historical content with historians employed in places where the mission is to reach a public audience in exciting and engaging ways.
For more information, please call (317-274-2718) or email John Dichtl, NCPH Executive Director.
NCPH has participated in two TAH programs.
2004-2006 - "ABC's of History," Indiana
2007-2009 - "Link to Liberty," Pennsylvania