Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2025 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.
This issue features two research articles and two reports from the field.Read More
Editor’s Note: This article is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of Colonial Williamsburg.
In February 2023, I began working at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF). At the same time, an original structure then known as the Williamsburg Bray School was being moved from the College of William & Mary onto the museum property at the corner of Nassau and Francis Streets. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The Organization of American Historians has extended proposals for their 2026 conference “Re-Thinking American History at 250” to April 29, 2025; Seattle University hosts “Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities”; the 2025 National Humanities Conference has extended their call for proposals to May 11, 2025.Read More
Not long ago, I described Native playwrights as public historians because their plays speak directly to audiences, their narratives confront the past as well as illuminate it, and playwrights bring life to histories Americans have forgotten or perhaps never learned. Whether through comedy or drama, satire or farce, Native playwrights are bringing complex histories to the stage. Read More
Sixty-five public historians gathered at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to discuss the state of public history in the U.S. South in October 2024. These historians came from across the South—the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee—for the NCPH mini-conference co-organized by Ian Beamish, Julia Brock, and Liz Skilton. Read More
The University of Nebraska at Omaha Criss Library is conducting a survey on archivists teaching outside the archives and invite librarians and archivists to complete their survey by May 2, 2025
The Council of Independent Colleges has published a report on the grants awarded to 49 independent colleges and universities through the Humanities Research for the Public Good (HRPG) initiative between 2019 and 2024 to support public-facing humanities projects
The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Autry Public History Prize through April 15, 2025
Sharing Stories from 1977 is forming an inaugural editorial board for their peer-reviewed, open-access website and seeks applications for editorial fellows from graduate researchers through April 15, 2025
The Association of African American Museums is accepting nominations for their 2025 awards through May 15, 2025
The Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University is accepting applictions for their Access to the Archives Travel Grant through May 31, 2025
The Center for Cryptologic History and the National Cryptologic Foundation call for papers and posters for their 19th Cryptologic History Symposium in Laurel, Maryland, US, from April 30 – May 2, 2025
The Society for History in the Federal Government calls for papers for its 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US, May 29-30, 2025
The European Society for Environmental History is holding their bi-annual Climate Histories Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in August 2025
The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host their PastForward 2025 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, September 16-18, 2025
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History will host their annual conference “African Americans & Labor” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, from September 24-27, 2025
The Preserving Historic Places conference will be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, September 30 – October 3, 2025
The Mountain-Plains Museums Association calls for proposals for their annual conference “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025
The National Humanities Alliance and Federation of State Humanities Councils will host their annual meeting Roots of Invention, Innovation, and Revitalization in Detroit, Michigan, US, November 12-16, 2025
The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 2026
The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 106: An Introduction in New York, New York, US, from April 28-29, 2025, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, from May 20-21, 2025
Columbia University will host the NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data June 2-13, 2025 at Columbia University, New York City, New York, US.
During the 2022-2023 school year, a history teacher from Fairfax High School (FHS) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Curator of Education at the Daughters of the Revolution (DAR) Museum in Washington, D.C, teamed up to create a six-week project for Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Read More
From Around the Field this week: National Humanities Alliance hosted their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US; the The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program; Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri hosts their 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US.Read More
Like many of the folks who read this blog, my career in public history is a defining part of who I am. Lately though, I’ve been wondering if this tie between my professional and personal identities may be bad for my mental health. Read More
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2025 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.
This issue presents four articles that demonstrate the diversity of public history scholarship today.Read More
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