02 October 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
Columbia University’s History Lab announces a conference on archival data and historical research funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission opens proposals for their annual conference, and Latino public history is given a spotlight in John Lequizamo’s PBS documentary series. Read More
24 September 2024 – Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
Editor’s Note: Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is the 2024 winner of the G. Wesley Johnson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding article appearing in the The Public Historian during the previous volume year, for her article “‘People First’: Interpreting and Commemorating Houselessness and Poverty,” The Public Historian Vol 45, No 1. Read More
18 September 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
The National Trust for Historic Preservation opens nominations for the 2025 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research announces October conference, and Emma Dennison seeks Christian-identified museum workers for a master’s thesis survey. Read More
11 September 2024 – Bri Matson, Sophia Imperioli, Justin Porcelo and Lauren Perry
In the Fall of 2023, the Museum Club at East High School in Denver, Colorado began working with students at the University of Colorado Denver to expand the high school’s museum to better represent their current community. This collaboration highlights the value of incorporating public history in high school curricula. Read More
04 September 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
The Midwest Archives Conference extends its proposal deadline to September 6, 2024, the Daughters of the American Revolution announce a symposium on textile history, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will hold a webinar on Black Modernism, architecture, and identity. Read More
27 August 2024 – Bailey Brown and Lindsey Waldenberg
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. Read More
21 August 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
Imagining America begins searching for their next home institution, the National Humanities Center opens residential fellowship applications, and the Lepage Center is now accepting applicants for the Labor in Historical Perspective Grant.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
07 August 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
Multiple publications, including Public Humanities’ “How-To Issue” and the Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, call for paper submissions and registration opens for the 2024 National Humanities Conference in Rhode Island, US.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
02 August 2024 – Sarah H. Case
Editor's Corner, African American history, environmental history, The Public Historian, 2024 Annual Meeting, slavery, oral history, small business, urban history
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 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.
The three articles in this issue all grapple with interpreting a particular place over multiple time periods, often in conversation with each other, and the insights that doing so can provide historians and the public. Read More
24 July 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
The American Association for State and Local History opens registration for their virtual summit on models of history and museum interpretation, the Organization of American Historians accepts submissions for the 2025 award cycle, and the American Council of Learned Societies launches award competition honoring open access publishing. Read More