Around the Field – November 4, 2026

04 November 2026 – NCPH Office

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) encourages public history practitioners to consult its Decolonization and the Road to Indigenization Resource Kit. It includes various resources, covering a range of topics intended to cultivate best practices for interpreting Native American history and collaborating with Native partners
• The National Park Service has awarded $12 million in grants to support a breadth of innovative projects across the National Park system. Read more about how these projects will experiment with ways to manage natural, cultural, and historic resources
• The Pomeroy Foundation is spotlighting its Fall 2026 student-led marker projects

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting grant applications for its 2027 fiscal year. Museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions are encouraged to apply by November 13, 2026
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for its Public Humanities Projects grant. Institutions with projects accessible to the public and employ engaging interpretive formats should apply by December 16, 2026
• Freedom Seekers is accepting essay submissions based on research and informed speculation to reconstruct the lives of the enslaved using newspaper advertisements. They will award up to three winners $1,000 each. Submissions are due December 31, 2026
• Preserving Legacies Climate Heritage Fellowship applications due January 8, 2027
• The Princeton University Library Research Grants Program is now accepting applications through January 13, 2027. With grants up to $6,000, they offer researchers from around the world access to Princeton’s rare and unique collections
• The American Heritage Center (ACH) at the University of Wyoming announces five fall travel grants (applications due October 31, 2026) and five spring travel grants (applications due March 31, 2027) for research travel completed through March 2028 and August 2028, respectively

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Museums Association of the Caribbean is hosting its 2026 annual conference, “Caribbean Museums: Connectors, Conveners, and Catalysts for Change,” in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from November 9-13, 2026
• The Lost Region Recovery Project is hosting its Midwestern Studies conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from November 19-21, 2026
• The Association of Critical Heritage Studies is meeting for its 8th biennial conference in Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand, from November 30-December 2, 2026
• The National Council for Black Studies is hosting its 51st annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 17-20, 2027. Call for papers is available until December 4, 2026
• The Long Island Museum Association & Long Island Historical Societies are hosting their inaugural conference, From Collection to Connection, in Garden City, New York, on December 7, 2026
• The Society for History in the Federal Government is hosting its annual meeting in Washington, DC, from May 20-21, 2027. Paper submissions are due January 15, 2027
• The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums is hosting its annual conference in Reno, Nevada, from September 28-30, 2027. Call for papers ends on January 29, 2027
• The Small Museum Association is hosting its 43rd annual conference in Rochester, New York, from February 21-24, 2027
• The National Humanities Alliance is hosting its Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day in Arlington, Virginia, US, from March 7-9, 2027
• CivxNow is hosting the Civic Learning Week National Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina, from March 11-12, 2027
• The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association is hosting its 48th conference, “Framing the Human in the Nineteenth Century” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from March 11-13, 2027
• The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums is hosting its Building Museums Symposium in Los Angeles, California, from March 17-19, 2027
• The Business History Conference is hosting its annual meeting in Mexico City, Mexico, from March 18-20, 2027
• The American Society for Environmental History is hosting its 50th annual conference in Richmond, Virginia, from March 31-April 3, 2027
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2027 OAH Conference in San Francisco, California, US, April 1-4, 2027
• The Photographers’ Gallery is hosting a one-day conference, “Whose Archive is it Anyway?” in London, England, on April 16, 2027
• The National Council on Public History is hosting its annual conference “Holding the Line” in St. Missouri, from April 21-24, 2027
• History and Archives in Practice is hosting its annual event in London, England, on April 28, 2027
• The American Institute for Conservation is hosting its 55th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from May 3-7, 2027 
• The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) is hosting its annual meeting and MuseumExpo in Houston, Texas, from May 5-8, 2027
• The Fort Ticonderoga Museum is hosting its Thirty-First Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War Conference in Ticonderoga, New York, from May 21-23, 2027
• The Alliance for Texas History is hosting its annual conference in McAllen, Texas, from May 26-28, 2027
• The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) is hosting its annual meeting in Winnipeg, Canada, from June 14-16, 2027
• The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is hosting its 2027 annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, from June 24-26, 2027
• The World History Association is hosting its 36th annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from June 27-29, 2027
• The Italian Association for Urban History is hosting its annual congress in Genoa, Italy, from September 7-10, 2027

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Omeka Team is offering a new series of virtual standalone workshops for Omeka users wishing to expand their knowledge of Omeka Classic/Omeka.net or Omeka S. The first workshop begins November 5, 2026
• The Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will host a free, virtual event, “Accessing Veterans Records,” on November 10, 2026
• Museum Minds Collaborative is hosting a free webinar on how to improve communication skills in museums and related fields on November 11, 2026
• The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is hosting a free webinar, “AI and Humanistic Inquiry,” on November 13, 2026. It will explore how AI is influencing various fields of study
• The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is hosting a webinar on how to improve your institution’s membership program on November 17, 2026
• Creative Commons is hosting a free webinar that explores the relationship between AI, copyright, and existing CC licenses and legal tools on November 17, 2026

PUBLICATIONS

• Radical History Review invites critical engagements with histories of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and its era of forever war, militarized incarceration, and imperial violence. Abstracts are due December 1, 2026
• Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia journal, is seeking proposals that highlight how representations of southern plantations have circulated through performance. Proposals are due December 15, 2026
• The Journal of American History (JAH) is inviting papers that explore the distinct teaching challenges the discipline of history faces in the age of large-language models and AI. Submissions are due June 1, 2027
• The Public Historian (TPH) seeks pitches for a special issue of TPH focused on women’s public history and women in public history. Proposals should be submitted to editor Sarah Case ([email protected]) by January 1, 2027
• The University of North Carolina Press has published The River That Made Texas: A Forgotten History of the Trinity by NCPH member Scot McFarlane. View the official book trailer and visit the website to learn more
• The University of Nevada Press has published National Parks and the Supreme Court: Groundbreaking Legal Battles by NCPH member Carla Chung Mattix, which examines how the Court has shaped the National Park System

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