Abstract
IN 1978 I was given a concrete introduction to the world of public history. At a pioneering public history conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, under the auspices of the Arizona Humanities Council, I listened to public historians enthusiastically describing their work. There, for example, I heard Arnita Jones (National Council on Public History vice chair, 1986-87), Richard Baker (president of the Society for History in the Federal Government, 1986-87), Suellen Hoy (assistant director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History), students from the Santa Barbara public historical studies program, and others discuss the rewarding and stimulating work historians were doing who had elected to follow careers beyond the classroom. A year later I found myself at a retreat in Montecito (near Santa Barbara), participating in discussions on public history with about seventy-five other historians. The Montecito meeting was indeed a landmark. Out of it came the planning and energy that launched the National Council on Public History and established annual NCPH conferences.
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