From Around the Field this week: Juneteenth is celebrated throughout the United States, the National Endowment for the Humanities hosts an informational webinar for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant Program, and nominations open for the Disability Public History Award.
In 1997, my hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado, was ravaged by a flood. During the deluge, the Johnson Center Mobile Home Park was completely destroyed. As a young child, I walked through the empty lot where the homes used to sit and wondered about the community that had been erased. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The Ohio Valley History Conference announces dates in early October, the AHA challenges participants to a Summer Reading Challenge, AASLH calls for poster proposals, and the Utah Historical Society hosts a webinar on statewide markers and monuments. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The National Trust for Historic Preservation accepts applications for their grant program; the Midwestern History Association hosts their annual conference; NCPH hosts a virtual workshop; Radical History Review ends their call for article abstracts
The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for an NCPH-sponsored poster session at their 2024 conference, deadline is June 24, 2024
AWARDS AND FUNDING
Museum Hue and the New York State Council on the Arts are accepting applicants for their fellowship program, HueArts NYS Leadership Cohort, until May 24, 2024
The Center for Archival Collections at the University Libraries at Bowling Green State University is accepting applicants for their Access to the Archives Travel Grants through May 31, 2024
The New England Historical Association is accepting nominations for their James P.
Spend an afternoon at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a lynching memorial, or a Holocaust museum, and you might emerge exhausted, the heaviness of your visit weighing on your consciousness. Staff at memorial museums that teach about mass trauma experience similar effects, but they are also tasked with protecting the history, memory, and stories that are related to that traumatic past. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The American Historical Association closes applications for multiple awards; the American Alliance of Museums hosts their annual conference; the American Association for State and Local History hosts a webinar; Radical History Review ends call for article abstracts
The goal of the education department at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum is to diversify conversations in the period rooms beyond craft and collecting to include more American history and culture. In that pursuit, we added an additional interpretive layer to the Indiana Period Room with objects of distinct cultural and popular culture significance that have led to broader interpretive changes throughout the organization. Read More
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
How can material objects help us better understand the complex, contested, and sometimes contradictory history of philanthropy? Read More
If we learned anything from the 2018–2022 Long Range Plan, it’s that imagining the events of the next five years—let alone planning for them—requires a great deal of creativity. Over many months of focus groups, drafts, and revisions, the Long Range Planning Committee has worked to develop a flexible framework for a set of ambitious, but attainable, goals that build on and mutually reinforce one another. Read More
The past decade has seen big shifts in the interpretation of slavery and enslaved people. Descendant engagement has become a standard of practice at places like Montpelier, the Whitney Plantation, and the University of Virginia. Other institutions, like Duke University and Clemson University, have established archival collections centered on documenting enslaved people. Read More
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Juneteenth is celebrated throughout the United States, the National Endowment for the Humanities hosts an informational webinar for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant Program, and nominations open for the Disability Public History Award.