Public History News Volume 34 | Number 1 | December 2013 Monterey and Sustainable Discounted JPASS Briann Greenfield | [email protected] Access for NCPH Public History Leah S. Glaser | [email protected] Members On March 19-22, 2014, the National Council with sessions that engage practical on Public History will meet in the scenic and considerations, such as disaster preparedness NCPH members historic shoreline city of Monterey, California. and energy efficiency. The NCPH Task may now purchase In recognition of our belief that public Force on Sustainability will also present a discounted one- historians can illuminate current issues, a draft of its white paper setting concrete year pass to read and our conference theme is Sustainable Public recommendations for how the organization download articles History. We thank the program committee, should respond to the problems of natural in more than 1,500 NCPH staff, and all who responded to the resource depletion and climate change. 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Recognizing that financial resources make broad use of the JSTOR collections. to promote a better relationship with the must correlate with social value, sessions environment. Sessions examine ways to explore how community engagement is As an NCPH member you can purchase a engage public audiences with the history helping public historians meet real needs twelve-month subscription, which includes of land use, natural resource consumption, and secure support. Other panels address unlimited reading/browsing and up to 120 the politics of conservation, and energy use. contemporary politics and highlight efforts to article downloads, for $99—a savings of Others identify potential venues for critical advocate for public financing, raise history’s $100 off the regular price. 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Heinberg Access includes a vast collection of archival is a Senior Fellow journals in the humanities, social sciences, at the Post Carbon and sciences and is continually expanding to Institute, an include new journals. More than 300 history organization that journals are included: for example, Oral believes our current History (1972-2011), The Journal of American economic, energy, History/MVHR (1914-2007), Church History environmental, and (1932-2007), Montana Magazine of History social problems (1951-2009), and Pennsylvania History are connected and continued on page 10 > continued on page 8 > Monterey County CVB Digital update on page 4 Patrons & Partners The support of the following institutions, each committed to membership at the Patron or Partner level, makes the work of the National Council on Public History possible. Photo by Flickr user cavenaghi9. 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